STAND. COM. REP. NO.1395

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1047

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1047 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 make an appropriation to fund collective bargaining cost items for certain state officers and employees in collective bargaining unit 11, firefighters.

Your Committee finds that an agreement between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative of unit 11, firefighters, for all collective bargaining cost items is presently the subject of arbitration. This measure will effectuate the agreement on all of these cost items upon the conclusion of arbitration.

This measure will also cover salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1047, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1047, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair