STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1389

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1389

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1389, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for fiscal biennium 2007-2009 to pay for the collective bargaining cost items relating to salary increases and other cost adjustments for officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     The Office of Collective Bargaining and the Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter testified in support of this bill.

 

     Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated in this measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding this collective bargaining cost item should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for unit (10) will eventually produce a settlement.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1389, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair