STAND. COM. REP. NO. 990-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2675
                                     S.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2675, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE EXECUTIVE
     DIRECTOR OF THE STATE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to change the method of
determining the salary of the Executive Director by requiring the
Ethics Commission (Commission) to set Executive Director's salary
so that it does not exceed that of the Associate Director of the
Ethics Commission by five percent.

     The Commission, the League of Women Voters, and an
individual supported this bill.

     Your Committee finds that the Executive Director is the only
staff member of the Commission whose salary is set statutorily,
and the last salary increase was in 1992.  The salaries of the
rest of the Commission's staff are increased in accordance with
increases in salaries of civil service employees in analogous
positions.  As a result, the salary of the Associate Director now
exceeds that of the Executive Director.

     This measure addresses this inequity and assures that the
Executive Director's salary is comparable to the salaries that
other state officials receive for comparable work and
responsibilities.


 
 
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     Your Committee is also aware that the same disparity exists
throughout state and county governments and has initiated H.C.R.
No. 139 to address and help resolve this inequity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2675, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and
Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Legislative
                                   Management,



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                                   EZRA KANOHO, Chair