STAND. COM. REP. NO. 816

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 464

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 464, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that the University of Hawaii pay a $100 penalty for each failure to pay its civil service exempt employees their wages within one pay period after the designated pay day under the after-the-fact payroll system.

Your Committee finds that newly hired civil service exempt employees of the University of Hawaii often have to wait up to six weeks to receive their first paycheck. This delay is caused in part by the filing and other requirements of the State's after-the-fact payroll accounting system. Your Committee believes that University of Hawaii civil service exempt employees should not have to wait an inordinate amount of time to receive their paychecks and that imposing such a penalty will provide the impetus for the University of Hawaii to develop a payroll system that is more efficient.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the penalty assessed against the University of Hawaii shall be paid to the employee;

(2) Clarifying that the penalty shall not be compounded;

(3) Clarifying that the measure does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date; and

(4) Changing the effective date of the measure from July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2050.

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. 464, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 464, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair