STAND. COM. REP. NO.  736-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2308

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2308, H.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 measure is to appropriate or authorize funds for collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit 11 and their excluded counterparts, including salary increases and cost adjustments, for fiscal biennium 2015-2017.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance and Office of Collective Bargaining provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Fire Fighters Association provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2308, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair