STAND. COM. REP. NO. 737-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1919

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1919 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require that proposed adjustments in the compensation and benefit packages of excluded civil service employees are at least equivalent to adjustments provided within the employer's jurisdiction.

The Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter (MCEC)of the Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) testified in support of this measure. Your Committee also received supporting testimony from:

(1) 32 County of Kauai employees excluded from collective bargaining and who are members of HGEA's MCEC; and

(2) 47 employees on Maui excluded from collective bargaining.

The Department of Human Resources Development opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity.

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 H.B. No. 1919, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1919, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair