STAND. COM. REP. NO.  521-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3142

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 3142 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to attract and retain the most desirable candidates for specific executive-level positions within the State by raising the salary of the:

     (1)  Manager of the Stadium Authority;

     (2)  Vice Director of Civil Defense;

     (3)  Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; and

     (4)  Chairperson of the Public Utilities Commission;

from 87 percent of the salary of the Director of Human Resources Development to 92 percent of the salary of the Director of Health.

     The Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Department of Defense, Stadium Authority, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association supported this bill. 

     Your Committee finds that the existing salaries for the positions specified in this measure are too low in light of the complex and challenging duties and responsibilities that each position entails.  Raising the salaries for the positions will help the State retain and attract the best possible leaders to take on these executive responsibilities. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3142, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3142, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair