STAND. COM. REP. NO. 452

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1064

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1064, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 for:

 

     (1)  Collective bargaining cost items in the collective bargaining agreement negotiated with collective bargaining unit (4); and

 

     (2)  Salary increases and other cost adjustments for state officers and employees in the Executive Branch, in the Judicial Branch, and who are employed by the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (4).

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Kalbert K. Young, Interim Director, Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure should continue to move through the legislative process in the event that the public employers and the exclusive representative of public employees identified in the measure come to an agreement over cost items during the legislative session.

 

     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. 1064, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair