STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1525

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1145
                                        S.D. 2




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 H.B.
No. 1145, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill 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 City and County of Honolulu.

     Specifically, this bill appropriates $1,377,550 for fiscal
year 1998-1999 for this purpose.  The appropriated amount covers
an agreement 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.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by:

     (1)  Restoring the medical ambulance personnel of the
          counties of Maui and Kauai, who were deleted in the
          S.D. 1 version of this bill; and


 
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     (2)  Amending the appropriated amount to an unspecified
          blank amount for purposes of further discussion.

     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 H.B.
No. 1145, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1145,
S.D. 2.

                                 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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