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 S.B. No. 1036, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds and provide fund authorization for collective bargaining cost items in the July 1, 1999, through June 30, 2003, collective bargaining agreement for Unit 11, firefighters.

The Department of Human Resources Development and United Public Workers submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill finalizes the collective bargaining process through legislative authorization of funding for cost items.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 1036, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1036, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.