STAND. COM. REP. NO.  961

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1062

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1062, 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 2011-2013 for Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for state officers and employees in the Executive Branch who are in Collective Bargaining Unit (8) and those officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within Collective Bargaining Unit (8).

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in strong support of this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments.

 

     It is your Committee's intent to advance this bill to provide a vehicle for cost items that may result from collective bargaining negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for Bargaining Unit (8).

 


     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. 1062, 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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KARL RHOADS, Chair