STAND. COM. REP. NO.  157

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1403

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1403 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to convert the two part-time positions in the Hawaii Paroling Authority (Authority) to full-time positions.

 

     The Authority and Department of Human Resources Development supported this bill.

 

     Your Committees find that this bill would allow the salary of the Authority's chairperson to be set at the Governor's discretion with guidance from the current published report of the Executive Salary Commission of recommended yearly salaries for department heads.  The Governor would also be authorized to set the two full-time position salaries at between 80 to 90 percent of the chairperson's salary.  The Committee on Finance may wish to further analyze this provision and its financial ramifications.  Your Committees have used their discretion to restore the original salary provision for the chairperson of the Authority and to make the salaries for the other two full-time members consistent with current statute provisions.


 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Removing provisions allowing the Governor to set the salaries for the Hawaii Paroling Authority's full-time members;

 

(2)  Restoring provisions that set the chairperson's salary at 87 percent of the Director of Public Safety's salary;

 

(3)  Setting the salaries for the other two full-time members of the Hawaii Paroling Authority at 80 percent of the chairperson's salary; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1403, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1403, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair