STAND. COM. REP. NO. 629-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2446

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2446 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INCREASES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to fund wage increases for members of collective bargaining units 1 (nonsupervisory employees in blue collar positions) and 5 (teachers and other Department of Education (DOE) personnel under the same salary schedule).

Your Committee has received Governor's Message No. 126, requesting immediate consideration and passage of this bill, in accordance with Article VII, Section 9, of the State Constitution.

DOE and the Hawaii State Teachers Association supported this bill.

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. 2446 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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