STAND. COM. REP. NO.1273

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1379

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1379 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund all collective bargaining cost items in the arbitration award for Collective Bargaining Unit 5 (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education under the same salary schedule).

In addition, this measure funds the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education under the same salary schedule who are excluded from collective bargaining.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association and the United Public Workers testified in support of the measure.

Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated in this measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, and salary increases and other cost adjustments should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for Unit 5 will eventually produce a settlement.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the date upon which this Act shall take effect to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

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 S.B. No. 1379, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1379, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair