STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2450

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2393

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2393, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the collective bargaining cost items of employer contributions to the Hawaii Employer Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), (9), and (13).

 

     This measure sets the employer contribution to the Hawaii Employer Union Health Benefits Trust Fund at sixty per cent of the premium cost, which will return health plan cost sharing between the employer and employees to previous levels. Your Committee finds that the employer contribution rates have not been finalized through negotiations between the State and the exclusive representatives, and that the parties have agreed to submit the issue to the Legislature for resolution.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2099, to facilitate further discussion on the measure, and by making a technical nonsubstantive change.

 

     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. 2393, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2393, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair