Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 852, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide for wage and salary adjustments for public sector managers excluded from collective bargaining that are not less than those negotiated for their civil service counterparts.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Human Resources Development and Public Employees Management Association of Hawaii commented.

Your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying that adjustments for public sector managers shall be equivalent to or not less than the negotiated adjustments of comparable civil service employees.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 852, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 852, H.D. 2.