STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1499

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1079

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.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 fiscal biennium 2015-2017 to fund salary adjustments, collective bargaining cost items, and other cost adjustments for employees within collective bargaining unit (4) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance; Office of Collective Bargaining; University of Hawaii; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; and East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation provided testimony 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 S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 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