STAND. COM. REP. NO.  83

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 431

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 431 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize and appropriate funds for public employees in collective bargaining unit (13) and their excluded counterparts, for cost items, including Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefit Trust Fund costs.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to fund the agreement reached between the State and the exclusive representative of the public employees in collective bargaining unit (13).

 

     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 H.B. No. 431 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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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair