STAND. COM. REP. NO. 619

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 902

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 902, S.D. 1, 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 Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for the employees in collective bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

 

Your Committee finds that the appropriations are necessary to cover the expected costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreement currently being negotiated between the State and collective bargaining unit (8) for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

 

     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. 902, 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