STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1159

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1078

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1078, S.D. 1, 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 appropriate and authorize funds for collective bargaining cost items, salary adjustments, and other cost adjustments for public officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (3) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2015-2017.

 

     The Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Budget and Finance, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2115, to facilitate discussion.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1078, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1078, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair