STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3420

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2096

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2096, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate or authorize funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 for collective bargaining cost items including salary and other cost adjustments for the members of collective bargaining unit (8), which consists of non-faculty personnel of the University of Hawaii and the community college system, and their excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; University of Hawaii System; and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL‑CIO.

 

     Your Committee finds that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (8) are currently in progress.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used to appropriate or authorize funds if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2022 Regular Session.

 


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; 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 Labor, Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2096, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2096, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair