STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2981

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 1726

        S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1726 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for fiscal biennium 2017-2019 for collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for public employees in collective bargaining unit (14) and for their excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO; and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (14) are currently in progress.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2018 Regular Session.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1726, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1726, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair