STAND. COM. REP. NO.  457-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1726

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1726 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for fiscal biennium 2017-2019 for collective bargaining cost items for public employees in collective bargaining unit (14) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1726 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair