Bill Text: HI HB2179 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Auditor; Salary

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 300, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1417). [HB2179 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2179-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3271

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2179

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2179 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AUDITOR,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the diminishment of the Auditor's salary during the Auditor's term of office by general law applicable to all salaried officers of the State.

 

     The measure would not apply, however, to the currently sitting auditor.

 

     Your Committee finds that the heads of legislative service agencies have experienced a recent salary decrease.  Your Committee also finds that legislators, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, department directors, deputy department directors, justices, and judges have also experienced a recent salary decrease.  The Auditor's salary, however, has not been similarly reduced because the Auditor's salary is statutorily exempt from being diminished during the Auditor's term.  Your Committee believes that the Auditor's salary should be subject to the same provisions as other legislative service agency heads.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2179, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

____________________________

DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

 

 

 

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