STAND. COM. REP. NO.  613-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2964

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2964, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to alleviate some of the effects of the current fiscal crisis the State is facing by increasing the amount of the salary reductions for members of the Legislature, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the justices and judges of all state courts, the Administrative Director of the State or an equivalent position, the department heads or executive officers and the deputies or assistants of various state departments for the second half of the 2009–2010 fiscal biennium.

     The Department of Human Resources Development, The Judiciary, and National Center for State Courts provided comments.

     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 H.B. No. 2964, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair