CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 192

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   H.B. No. 1416
                                  H.D. 2
                                  S.D. 2
                                  C.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate
in H.B. No. 1416, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the Employees'
Retirement System (ERS) law to:

     (1) Allow deputy sheriffs to retire without penalty after
         twenty-five years of service;

     (2) Allow qualified contributory class members to convert
         their membership status to noncontributory and obtain a
         refund of their contributions in cases of financial
         hardship; and


 
 
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     (3) Allow the chairpersons and members of the Public
         Utilities Commission, the Labor and Industrial Relations
         Appeals Board, and the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to
         become class A contributory members of ERS.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

     (1) Deleting the provision allowing qualified contributory
         class members to convert their membership in cases of
         financial hardship;

     (2) Deleting the provision allowing the chairpersons and
         members of the Public Utilities Commission, the Labor
         and Industrial Relations Appeals Board, and the Hawaii
         Labor Relations Board to become class A contributory
         members of ERS;

     (3) Authorizing deputy sheriffs to convert to class A
         membership in ERS upon filing an election form with the
         ERS Board of Trustees;

     (4) Designating as class C members deputy sheriffs who do
         not elect to become class A members; 

     (5) Allowing a deputy sheriff to receive reduced retirement
         benefits after ten years of credited service; and

     (6) Designating all deputy sheriffs hired after June 30,
         1999 as class A members.

     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of H.B. No. 1416, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1416, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted,

MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE        MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE
           SENATE                              HOUSE
                                   
                                   
                                   
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BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair              TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair       DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Co-Chair

 
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AVERY CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair           IRIS IKEDA CATALANI, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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MATT M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair        JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair           NATHAN SUZUKI, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair             BARBARA MARUMOTO, Member



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LES IHARA, JR., Member



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SAM SLOM, Member