STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1185_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1284
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 1




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 S.B. No. 1284, S.D. 2, 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, and 13, and their excluded counterparts,
as well as other cost adjustments negotiated between the State
and the respective bargaining unit representatives.

     The Office of Collective Bargaining, the United Public
Workers, the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the Hawaii
State Teachers Association, and a member of the public testified
in support of this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance,
the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and the Ombudsman
commented on this bill.

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

     Your Committee notes that a similar bill, H.B. 1038, H.D. 1,
passed out of the House of Representatives earlier this session
after public hearings before this Committee and the Committee on
Finance.

 
 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill to reflect the provisions found in H.B. No. 1038, H.D. 1,
by: 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 for the
          purpose of continued discussion; and

     (2)  Inserting an appropriation for employees of legislative
          service agencies;

     (3)  Deleting the appropriation for Hawaii Health Systems
          Corporation employees; and

     (4)  Making other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of style and clarity.

     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
of S.B. No. 1284, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
1284, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, 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