STAND. COM. REP. NO.  922

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 133

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 133, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize a court to decree a forfeiture of retirement benefits by a member, former member, or retirant of the Employees' Retirement System based on conviction of a felony that the court finds is related to employment by the State or any county.

The Employees' Retirement System submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2115, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 133, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 133, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair