STAND. COM. REP. NO.738

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1441

 

 

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 S.B. No. 1441 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 appropriate funds for all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining Unit 7, faculty of the University of Hawaii and the community college system.

In addition, the bill appropriates funds for salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee believes that this bill should continue to advance in the Legislature as a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, and salary increases and other cost adjustments as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for Unit 7 continue.

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 S.B. No. 1441 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair