STAND. COM. REP. NO.  613

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1162

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1162 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 and authorize funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, to cover collective bargaining cost items, including the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Costs, for the public officers and employees of collective bargaining unit (4) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure serves as a vehicle to authorize and appropriate funds for collective bargaining unit (4) cost items that are currently under negotiation, in the event that an agreement is reached or arbitration award issued prior to the end of the legislative session.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1162 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair