STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1611

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 46

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 46, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require public disclosure of proposed compensation or changes in compensation for administrative positions in the University of Hawaii (UH) system that are filled by civil-service exempt employees.

     The UH Professional Assembly and The League of Women Voters of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  UH opposed this measure.  The Office of Information Practices offered comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the provision requiring the disclosure of proposed compensation or changes in compensation for certain civil-service exempt employees from the collective bargaining and public agency meeting laws and the annual report of the UH Board of Regents (BOR);

     (2)  Clarifying that notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, BOR shall publicly disclose, no later than ten business days before any related open meeting convened for purposes of public comment, compensation offered to newly hired employees and changes in compensation offered to existing employees for administrative positions in the UH system filled by excluded employees;

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2059, to encourage further discussion; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 46, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 46, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair