STAND. COM. REP. NO.1391

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1043

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1043 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to fund collective bargaining cost items for certain state officers and employees.

Your Committee finds that the Office of Collective Bargaining and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 13 are in the process of reaching agreement on collective bargaining cost items for the officers and employees in those bargaining units in the executive branch, the Judiciary, and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation. This measure will effectuate the agreement on all of these cost items upon its conclusion.

This measure will also cover state officers and employees in the executive branch and the Judiciary who are excluded from collective bargaining but belong to the same compensation plan as those officers and employees in the collective bargaining units.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1043, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1043, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair