THE SENATE

KA AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2025

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

TIME:

10:02 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211 & Videoconference

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

WAM

 

 

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A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

The purpose of this decision making meeting is to insert substantive provisions into the following short form bill.  A public hearing will be scheduled at a later date, at which point testimony will be accepted.

 

SB 934

      Proposed SD1

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Proposed SD1:  Appropriates moneys to the Department of Budget and Finance for fiscal year 2026 to increase the mass transit special fund expenditure ceiling. (Proposed SD1)

 

 

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SB 935

      Proposed SD1

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Sets the retirement allowance for a member who has credited service as a judge after 1/31/2025, irrespective of age, to 1.75 per cent of the judge’s average final compensation for each year of credited service as a judge. Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service qualified Tier 2 Employee’s Retirement System members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes from ten years to five years. Increases employer contributions to offset the resulting liability. (Proposed SD1)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 1 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

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[Added on 2-18-25]

 

Copies of the proposed SD1 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's Web site:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

AS THIS IS A DECISION MAKING MEETING, NO TESTIMONY WILL BE ACCEPTED.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair