STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1027_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1038
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1038 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide fund authorizations
and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Units
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 13 and their excluded counterparts
as well as other cost adjustments negotiated between the State
and the bargaining unit representatives. 

     The Office of Collective Bargaining, United Public Workers,
AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO, and the Hawaii Government Employees
Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of
this measure.  The Ombudsman and the State Auditor commented on
the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 for the
          purpose of continued discussion;

     (2)  Inserting an appropriation for employees of legislative
          service agencies; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive revisions to conform
          to correct drafting style.

 
 
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     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.
1038, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1038, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair