STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2936

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2308

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, 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 and intent of this measure is to authorize funds for collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated for employees in collective bargaining unit (11).

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; Office of Collective Bargaining; and Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463, IAFF, AFL-CIO.

 

     Your Committee finds that in December 2015, a memorandum of agreement was entered into to provide an increase in the meal allowance for employees in collective bargaining unit (11).  This measure provides a legislative vehicle to fund the collectively bargained terms that were agreed upon.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor 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 Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair