STAND. COM. REP. NO. 686-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2467

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Retain seven positions that have a salary range identical to the salary range of a deputy director or assistant on par with the deputy director's or assistant's pay, if the latter increases; and

(2) Remove five statutorily-set salaries and allow the appointing authority to set the salary for those positions.

The Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Defense, Office of Veterans Services, and Advisory Board on Veterans Services submitted testimony in support of this measure. The League of Women Voters of Hawaii supported this measure with amendments. The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) supported the intent of this measure. The Hawaii State Ethics Commission and Department of Health offered comments.

 

Your Committee acknowledges the testimony of HCDCH, which requests that its board of directors be allowed to set the salaries for the executive director and executive assistant of HCDCH.

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 H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair