STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 133

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 133 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the courts to decree a forfeiture of benefits by an Employees' Retirement System member, former member, or retirant upon a conviction of a felony and finding that the felony is related to the member, former member, or retirant's employment by the State or any county.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Employees' Retirement System.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 133, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 133, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair