STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2256

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2837

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2837 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize funds for collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated for employees in collective bargaining unit (11).

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Fire Fighters Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that in December 2015, a memorandum of agreement was entered into to provide meal reimbursements for employees in collective bargaining unit (11) and their excluded counterparts.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle to fund the collectively bargained terms that were agreed upon.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting language that appropriates funds for the collective bargaining agreement for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as officers and employees in unit (11); and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2837, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair