STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2666

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3030

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3030, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AUDITOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to subject the Auditor's salary to the same provisions of law as other legislative service agency heads by allowing the diminishment of the Auditor's salary during the Auditor's term of office by general law applicable to all salaried officers of the State.

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Office of the Auditor.

     Your Committee finds that the heads of legislative service agencies, as well as other government officials, have experienced a recent salary reduction.  This measure makes the Auditor's salary diminishment provision the same as that for the Legislative Reference Bureau Director and the Ombudsman who, like the Auditor, are heads of legislative service agencies.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3030, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3030, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair