STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1350

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 833

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 833, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 for collective bargaining cost items for officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; the United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that on January 10, 2013, the Department of Budget and Finance received an arbitration award reflecting a 3.2 per cent increase for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (10), beginning January 16, 2013.  Your Committee further finds the amounts appropriated in this measure reflect the arbitration award along with increases for the excluded counterparts who belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (10).

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Specifying that the amounts appropriated are for fiscal year 2012-2013;

 

(2)  Clarifying that amounts appropriated for state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining are for those who belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (10);

 

(3)  Correcting the program identification title for the appropriations for state employees in collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts who are assigned to the Judiciary;

 

(4)  Correcting the program identification title for the appropriations for state employees in collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts who are assigned to Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; and

 

(5)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, 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. 833, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 833, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair