STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1561

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1599

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1599 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 fund collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), and (13) and their excluded counterparts.

Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the source of funding indicated in this measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), and (13) will eventually produce a settlement.

Your Committee has amended the measure by inserting the amount of $1 in each appropriation category and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 1599, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1599, 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