STAND. COM. REP. NO. 644

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1311

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1311 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARY PAYMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make more efficient the method of paying the comptroller and the deputy comptroller.

     Specifically, this measure removes the requirement that checks for the payment of salaries to the comptroller and the deputy comptroller be signed by the Governor.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committee finds that the requirement for the Governor to sign the paychecks of the comptroller and the deputy comptroller is an internal control that is no longer necessary.  The existing statutory requirement contained in section 40‑53(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, that directs all state employees (which will include the comptroller and deputy comptroller when this measure is enacted), to direct deposit their paychecks into an account in a financial institution for purposes of establishing a financial record, is a sufficient and adequate control.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1311 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair