STAND. COM. REP. NO. 340

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1526

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam President:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1526 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUDICIARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to statutorily provide a mechanism to raise the salaries of the administrative director and the deputy administrative director of the Judiciary since these salaries are not reviewable by the Salary Commission created by the Constitutional Amendment approved by the voters of Hawai‘i in November, 2006.     

     Your Committee heard testimony from the State Judiciary in favor of the bill which sets the salary of the Administrative Director at 89% of the Chief Justice's salary and the Deputy Administrator Director at 95% of the Administrative Director.

     Your Committee amended the bill to set the Administrative Director's salary at 80% of the Chief Justice's salary. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report,

your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1526, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1526, S.D. 1 and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair