STAND. COM. REP. 1325

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1445

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1445 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund any salary increases and other cost adjustments that may be authorized for fiscal biennium 2003-2005 for officers and employees of the following legislative agencies who are excluded from collective bargaining:

(1) Office of the Auditor;

(2) Ethics Commission;

(3) Office of the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB); and

(4) Office of the Ombudsman.

The Office of Collective Bargaining, Ethics Commission, LRB, Office of the Ombudsman, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to upon its approval.

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. 1445, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1445, 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