STAND. COM. REP. NO. 802

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1428

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1428 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS' SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the salary of the Director of the Office of Veterans Services to a maximum of seventy-four per cent of the salary of the Director of Human Resources and Development.

 

     The Department of Defense and the Department of Human Resources and Development submitted comments in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 226, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, provided salary increases to those positions that were not previously considered by the Salary Commission, including the Director of the Office of Veterans' Services.  The position received a small increase, the first increase in fifteen years.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the Director of the Office of Veterans Services is currently authorized to receive up to sixty-nine per cent of the salary of the Director of the Department of Human Resources Development, a compensation level that is not adequate, in light of the added responsibilities and the increase in veterans due to deployments of the Hawaii National Guard and Hawaii-based Reserves.

 

     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. 1428 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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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair