STAND. COM. REP. NO. 187________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1038
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1038 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide fund authorizations
and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Units
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 and their excluded counterparts,
including the cost of salary adjustments, negotiated between the
State and the bargaining unit representatives.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure
from representatives of the Office of Collective Bargaining,
Executive Office of the Governor, the United Public Workers, the
Hawaii Government Employees Association, the Hawaii Health
Systems Corporation, the Hawaii State AFL-CIO and the Hawaii
State Teachers Association.  In addition, numerous individuals
testified in support of the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the negotiated agreements reached
by the State and government employees' bargaining unit
representatives should be funded by the Legislature.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
 
 
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of H.B. No. 1038 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.
                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and Public
                                   Employment,



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair