STAND. COM. REP. NO.1389

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1041

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1041 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for salary increases and other cost adjustments for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

In particular, the bill appropriates funds for officers and employees of the Office of the Auditor, the Ethics Commission, the Office of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the Office of the Ombudsman.

Your Committee finds that this measure is an appropriate vehicle to facilitate discussion on this issue and to provide funds for salary increases authorized for legislative service agency personnel.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to continue discussions 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 H.B. No. 1041, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1041, S.D. 1.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair