STAND. COM. REP. NO.  87

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 816

 

 

 

 

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. 816 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 make appropriations to fund collective bargaining cost items for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium for public employees in collective bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary increases and other cost adjustments.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Director of Finance, United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO, and one concerned individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that fund appropriations and authorizations by the Legislature are necessary to cover the expected costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreements negotiated between the State and respective bargaining units representing state public employees, and their excluded counterparts for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2013.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to fund collective bargaining costs, including salary increases and other cost adjustments, for employees in collective bargaining unit (1), along with state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining but belong to the same compensation plans as those persons within unit (1), for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium.

 

     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. 816 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