STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2435

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2081

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, 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:

     (1)  Require the salary of the Administrative Director of the Courts to be equal to the salary of the Administrative Director of the State; and

     (2)  Require the salary of the Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts to be equal to ninety-five percent of the salary of the Administrative Director of the Courts.

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

     Your Committee finds that when the voters ratified the constitutional amendment and the Legislature passed the implementing legislation that created the Commission on Salaries, the positions of Administrative Director of the Courts and Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts were inadvertently left out.  As a result, the Judiciary testified that these two positions were left without a mechanism to review and determine their salaries.  This measure corrects this inadvertent omission by setting the salaries of the Administrative Director of the Courts and Deputy Administrative Director of the Courts at the Executive Branch's tier 1 salary level, which is most similar in scope and function to the Judiciary's administrative officers.

     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. 2081 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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