STAND. COM. REP. NO.  697

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1167

 

 

 

 

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. 1167 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 the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium to cover the collective bargaining cost items for the public officers and employees of collective bargaining unit (4) and their counterparts in the Executive Branch, Judiciary, and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation who are excluded from collective bargaining.   

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance, University of Hawaii, and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

 

     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. 1167 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