STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1306

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1164

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1164 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide a legislative vehicle to appropriate unspecified employer contribution amounts to cover Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund health benefit plan premiums for public employees in collective bargaining unit (2) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System.

 

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committees made available a proposed S.D. 1 for review and comment that applies to collective bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.  The proposed S.D. 1 amends this measure by making technical amendments, including the insertion of proper program IDs.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

 

     Your Committees find that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (1) are currently in progress.  The proposed S.D. 1 provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2013 Regular Session.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1 and amending it further by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1164, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1164, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair