STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2711

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2499
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2499 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE
     LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form bill is to make an
appropriation to the legislative agencies.

     Your Committee has amended this short form vehicle to
correct a technical drafting error in Act 138, Session Laws of
Hawaii 1999.  The Act appropriated funds to the legislative
agencies for salary increases and other cost adjustments
authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for officers
and employees of these agencies excluded from collective
bargaining.

     The appropriations under Act 138 were for fiscal years 1998-
1999, 1999-2000, and 2000-2001.  Since the Act required the
lapsing of funds within the fiscal year for which it was
appropriated, the Act's effective date of July 1, 1999 precluded
the expenditure of the 1998-1999 appropriations, which included
adjustments commencing from January 1, 1998.  This bill corrects
this inadvertent error.


 
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     The bill also allows legislative agency employees to
maintain parity with other state employees and is based on a
settlement for a two-year collectively bargained agreement with
the exclusive representative 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.
2499, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2499, S.D. 1, and
be placed on the calendar for 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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