STAND. COM. REP. 2195

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2556

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2556 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining from the Office of the Auditor, the Hawaii State Ethics Commission, the Office of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the Office of the Ombudsman for the fiscal year 2004-2005.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of the Ombudsman, the Hawaii State Ethics Commission, and the Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter of the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committee believes that this measure should remain available for action throughout the legislative process as negotiations between the State and exclusive bargaining representative, with which salary increases for excluded employees have traditionally been aligned, continue.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2556 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair