STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1498

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1078

      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. 1078, 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 and authorize funds for collective bargaining cost items, salary adjustments, and other cost adjustments for public officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (3) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2015-2017.

The Department of Budget and Finance; Office of Collective Bargaining; University of Hawai‘i; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; and an individual 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. 1078, 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