STAND. COM. REP. NO. 27

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1209

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1209 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RETIREMENT OF JUDGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to harmonize age and service requirements for judges who are members of the Employees' Retirement System with requirements for other contributory plan members.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Employees' Retirement System and the Judiciary.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will bring consistency of age and service requirements between judges who are members of the Employees' Retirement System and other contributory plan members.

     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. 1209 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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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair