Hawaiʻi House Minority Leader Lauren Cheape Matsumoto (R) explained how the state Salary Commission works and shared her take on recently proposed legislative salary increases during a Civil Beat panel. The proposed pay package includes an initial 32% raise for state lawmakers that would increase their salaries from $74,160 today to $97,896 effective Jan. 1, 2027. Those raises for lawmakers would be followed by 4% pay increases in each of the following two years and another 8% pay increase on Ja