Bill Text: HI SB967 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Salaries; Legislative Approval

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-12 - The committee(s) on HED recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB967 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB967-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 800

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 967

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 967, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to submit to the Legislature for approval salary range proposals equal to or in excess of two times the Governor's salary prior to the recruitment for those positions.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one individual.  The University of Hawaii System submitted written comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii's prudent fiscal management of public funds is a matter of statewide concern.  More specifically, there is concern regarding the number of University employees whose salaries may be considered by some to be excessive.  This measure addresses these concerns by requiring legislative approval for a salary range proposed by the Board of Regents that is equal to or in excess of twice that of the Governor.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 967, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 967, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair