STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1631-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 1526

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 3

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1526, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUDICIARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to rectify the inadvertent omission of the salaries of the Administrative Director of the Courts (AD) and Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts (Deputy AD) from the salaries reviewed by the Commission on Salaries (Commission) by statutorily establishing the maximum amounts of these two salaries.  Specifically, this bill establishes:

     (1)  The salary of the AD at a level that is 80 percent of the salary of the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court; and

     (2)  The salary of the Deputy AD at 80 percent of the salary of the AD.

     The Judiciary provided comments on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by setting the salaries of the AD and Deputy AD as follows, effective July 1, 2008:

     (1)  The salary of the AD shall be identical to that of the Administrative Director of the State (also known as the Governor's Chief of Staff); and

     (2)  The salary of the Deputy AD shall be set at 95 percent of the salary of the AD.

     Your Committee has also made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1526, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1526, S.D. 2, H.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair