STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1545

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 257

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. 257 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 all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit 8, personnel of the University of Hawaii and the community college system, other than faculty.

This bill also funds, for fiscal biennium 2005-2007, the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized under chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for personnel of the University of Hawaii and the community college system, other than faculty, who are excluded from collective bargaining.

All funding amounts in this bill are unspecified as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for unit 8 continue and will eventually reach an agreement.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Replacing each unspecified appropriation with $1 for purposes of stimulating further discussion;

(2) Clarifying in sections 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 that appropriations allotted are authorized for expenditure by adding the phrase "for expenditure";

(3) Amending the program identification in parts III and IV from "administrative director services (JUD 201)" to "administration (JUD 601)"; and

(4) 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. 257, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 257, 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