Bill Text: HI SB1118 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Personnel

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 152, on 6/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). [SB1118 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1118-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1075

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1118

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1118, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to enable the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to recruit and retain appropriately skilled and trained personnel by:

 

     (1)  Lifting the current cap on the salaries of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority Executive Director and Executive Assistant to; and

 

     (2)  Providing the salaries of other key executive management personnel whose qualifications require public housing or affordable housing experience capped at,

 

an amount not to exceed compensation limits imposed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

 

     The Hawaii Public Housing Authority Board of Directors and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority supported this measure.  An individual commented on this measure.

     Your Committees note that a competitive compensation package consists of salary, and vacation, sick leave, insurance, retirement, and other benefits to attract and retain capable employees.  As such, your Committees respectfully request the Committee on Finance to consider not only the Hawaii Public Housing Authority employee salaries that are specified in the measure, but to take into consideration the total compensation package that includes state benefits to employees.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that the other key executive management personnel are the positions of chief financial management advisor, property management branch chief, chief planner, and redevelopment officer; and

 

     (2)  Providing that the salaries set by the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for key executive management personnel shall be capped at an amount equal to the Governor's salary.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1118, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1118, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair		____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair