STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2642

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2081

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2081 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to align the salaries of the Administrative Director of the Courts and the Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts with their executive branch counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Judiciary.

 

     Your Committee finds that tying the amount of the Administrative Director of the Courts' salary to the salary of the Administrative Director of the State, and establishing that the Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts' salary shall be ninety-five per cent of the Administrative Director of the Courts' salary is reasonable, since these positions perform similar functions to their executive branch counterparts for a co-equal branch of state government.  Your Committee also finds that establishing a method to set the salaries of the Administrative Director of the Courts and the Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts will encourage the hiring and retention of qualified persons in these positions.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the salary of the Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts to be equal to an unspecified percentage of the salary of the Administrative Director of the Courts; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 2081, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2081, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair