STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1208-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1038

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1038, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Authorize a court to decree the forfeiture of all or any portion of the Employee Retirement System benefits to which a member, former member, or retirant of state or county employment would otherwise have been entitled if the member, former member, or retirant is convicted of a felony that the court finds to be related to the employment of the member, former member, or retirant; and

 

(2)  Require the Employee Retirement System to comply with a court order to reduce, suspend, or deny payment of benefits to the member, former member, or retirant.

 

     The Employees' Retirement System Board of Trustees supported this measure.


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Limiting the applicability of the measure's forfeiture of benefits provision to only those members, former members, and retirants hired after the effective date of the measure;

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to upon approval; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1038, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1038, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair