STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1180

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1145
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1145 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR
     EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration measure is to make an
appropriation for retroactive payment of additional emergency
medical services contract costs resulting from collective
bargaining increases and parity wage and salary differentials for
emergency medical ambulance personnel for the counties of
Honolulu, Maui, and Kauai.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Health (DOH) and the United Public
Workers (UPW).

     This measure appropriates the sum of $1,906,336, for fiscal
year 1998-1999, to be expended by the DOH to cover an agreement
that included the UPW for the period July 1, 1995, through
June 30, 1999.  The contract requires the State to pay emergency
medical personnel wage increases granted to civil service workers
in the same classification.  There are no civil service positions
on Maui and Kauai for emergency ambulance personnel.  The
contract provides that if wage rates for civil service positions
are increased at any time, the "...Contractor can apply for
increase of contract price based on the percentage wage increase

 
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granted...Civil Service positions,..."  Your Committees believe
that the counties of Maui and Kauai should apply for similar wage
increases through the appropriate process.  If Maui and Kauai
initiate this process, your Committees request the Senate
Committee on Ways and Means to consider restoring the
appropriations for Maui and Kauai

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting references to Maui and Kauai, on
          recommendation of the UPW; and

     (2)  Changing the appropriation amount from $1,906,336, to
          $1,377,550, on recommendation of the DOH.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Transportation and
Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 1145, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1145, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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