STAND. COM. REP. NO. 755

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1470
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1470 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
     EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING
     APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Office of the Auditor, the Ethics Commission, the Legislative
Reference Bureau, and the Ombudsman to pay for salary increases
and other cost adjustments for officers and employees of the
Legislature who are excluded from collective bargaining.

     Your Committee finds that this bill will allow the Office of
the Auditor, the Ethics Commission, the Legislative Reference
Bureau, and the Ombudsman to compensate their officers and
employees on par with persons in similar positions who are
covered under the collective bargaining agreements for units 3
(white-collar, nonsupervisory), 4 (white-collar, supervisory),
and 13 (professional and scientific, other than registered
professional nurses).

     Your Committee also finds that Act 115, Session Laws of
Hawaii 1997, appropriated and authorized funds to pay for fiscal
biennium 1997-1999, all collective bargaining cost items in the

 
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agreements negotiated in fiscal biennium 1995-1997 with the
representatives of bargaining units 3, 4, and 13.

     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.
1470 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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