STAND. COM. REP. 2139

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2550

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2550 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit 5, teachers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule, including part-time employees working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent.

In addition, this measure funds the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for teachers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule, including part-time employees working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Collective Bargaining and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated in this measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for Unit 5 will eventually produce a settlement.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2550 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair