STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1426

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 1118

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1118, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to recruit and retain appropriately skilled and trained personnel by:

     (1)  Amending the current cap on the salaries of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority Executive Director and Executive Assistant by de-linking them from the salary of the Director of Human Resources Development;

     (2)  Providing for other specified professional and management positions; and

     (3)  Authorizing the Board of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to set the salaries for specified professional and management positions at an amount that shall not exceed the salary of the Governor.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Hawaii Public Housing Authority Board of Directors testified in support of this measure.

     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. 1118, S.D. 1, 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair