STAND. COM. REP. 1477

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1332

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICIALS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF STATE GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Establish an Executive Salary Commission (Commission) to review the salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, executive branch department heads other than the president of the University of Hawaii and the Superintendent of Education, and deputy department heads; and

(2) Provide a procedure by which salaries recommended by the Commission become effective unless disapproved by the Legislature or the Governor.

The Governor, Department of Human Resources Development, and Attorney General, testified in support of this bill. The Judiciary provided testimony in support and stated concerns.

Your Committee has amended this bill to:

(1) Change the Commission appointment process to allow the five members of the Commission to be appointed as follows:

(a) Two members to be appointed by the Senate President;

(b) Two members to be appointed by the House Speaker; and

(c) One member to be appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court;

and

(2) Make clear that either the Legislature or the Governor may reject Commission recommendations.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1332, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair