Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 825, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow deputy sheriffs and the sheriff division administrator, including class H members, within the Department of Public Safety to retire after twenty-five years of credited service with retirement benefits similar to those afforded other law enforcement and safety officers, unreduced for age.

This bill adds a definition of "deputy sheriff" to include those in the position of deputy sheriff I to V or the sheriff division administrator. The twenty-five years of credited service must have been obtained on or after July 1, 2005, of which the last five or more years prior to retirement must be credited service as a deputy sheriff or sheriff division administrator.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this bill from the Department of Public Safety. The Employees' Retirement System submitted comments.

Your Committees has amended this bill by substituting the phrase "unreduced for age" for "regardless of age" in the bill's description and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2099, for the purposes of stimulating further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 825, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 825, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.