STAND. COM. REP. NO. 982

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1391

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1391 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for fiscal biennium 2007-2009 to pay for the collective bargaining cost items relating to salary increases and other cost adjustments for officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (13) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of the measure from the Judiciary and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is a vehicle that must be kept alive in order to make the necessary appropriations upon the resolution of the bargaining process.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including a provision to appropriate funds for the officers and employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation who are the excluded counterparts of the officers and employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation who are members of collective bargaining unit (13).  Your Committee has also amended this measure by making numerous technical amendments.  Lastly, your Committee has changed the effective date to July 1, 2057 for the purposes of continued discussion of the matter.

 

     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. 1391, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1391, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair