STAND. COM. REP. NO. 43

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1412
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1412 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 the
1999-2001 fiscal biennium to cover cost items contained in the
negotiated agreement for bargaining unit 5.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
United Public Workers.

     Your Committee finds that negotiations are currently in
progress for this bargaining unit.  This measure is being
reported out of committee in anticipation of the need for a
mechanism to fund the cost items in the resulting agreement.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1412 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


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



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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