STAND. COM. REP. NO.946

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 62

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 62, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is entitle University of Hawaii faculty and administrative personnel with multiple part-time appointments to become members of the Employees' Retirement System, based upon an aggregation of the multiple appointments.

Your Committee finds that this measure sanctions and codifies a long-standing practice of the University of Hawaii regarding its reporting of employee eligibility to the Employees' Retirement System. Specifically, the University bases the eligibility of its part-time faculty and lecturers with multiple appointments on the faculty and lecturers' aggregated multiple part-time appointments. Through aggregation, an employee's appointments amount to at least one-half of a full-time equivalent position.

Your Committee finds this measure is necessary because present law excludes employees in positions that require less than one-half of a full-time position from membership in the system, and does not expressly authorize the aggregation of multiple appointments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 62, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair