STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1147

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 119

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 119 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide the funds necessary to cover cost items and cost adjustments for employees of the various legislative agencies.

 

     The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, Office of the Ombudsman, Office of the Auditor, and the League of Women Voters of Hawaii supported this measure.  The Legislative Reference Bureau commented on this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2115, to encourage further discussion.

 

     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 S.B. No. 119, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 119, H.D. 1, 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