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. 828, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to entitle corrections officers who terminate from public employment with twenty-five years of credited service to receive retirement benefits unreduced for age, provided that the corrections officer works as a corrections officer for the last five years of employment.

Your Committees find that the benefits provided under this measure will tend to place corrections officers on par with other law enforcement and safety personnel.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Public Safety, the United Public Workers-AFSCME Local 646-AFL-CIO, and twelve adult corrections officers. Comments on the measure were received from the Employees' Retirement System.

Your Committees have amended this measure 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, in order to promote further discussion of the matter.

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. 828, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 828, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.