STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1284

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 624

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 624 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide an emergency appropriation to fund collective bargaining cost items in the negotiated agreements for members of Collective Bargaining Units (1) and (10) and the salary increases and other cost adjustments for their excluded counterparts.

The appropriation also includes the cost of salary adjustments for fiscal biennium 2003-2005.

Your Committee finds that collective bargaining negotiations with the United Public Workers were not concluded until after the 2004 legislative session. Immediate passage of the measure will allow United Public Workers' members and their excluded counterparts to begin receiving pay raises comparable to those already being received by other units.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 624, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 624, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair