STAND. COM. REP. NO. 236

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 144

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 144 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to adjust the salaries of certain positions in the executive branch for managers and office directors to be set at the maximum salary payable to deputies or assistants to department heads as established by section 26-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), which specifies a range of salaries for deputies or assistants to department heads.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Defense, Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Health, Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board, and Hawaii Paroling Authority.

The intent of this measure is to provide for the salaries of certain administrators whose specific monetary salaries are currently specified in statute. Your Committee finds that tying these salaries into the amount set by section 26-53, HRS, is a neutral and equitable manner to provide compensation to these various positions. Your Committee notes that section 26-53, HRS, sets the salaries within a range as last recommended by the executive salary commission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the salaries of the following positions to be set at the maximum salary payable to deputies or assistants to department heads as established by section 26-53, HRS: Vice Director of Civil Defense, Recycling Coordinator, Director of the Executive Office on Aging, Chairperson of the Hawaii Paroling Authority, Director of the Office of Veterans' Services, and Executive Director of the Office of Community Services. As amended, this measure provides the same salary provisions for all specified offices.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 144, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 144, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Government Operations,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair