Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1053 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund collective bargaining cost items for public employees excluded from collective bargaining and subject to chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the Fiscal Biennium 2001-2003.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Budget and Finance, the Hawaii Government Employees Association, Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter, and the Ombudsman.

Your Committee believes that this measure should remain available for action throughout the legislative process as negotiations between the State and exclusive bargaining representative to which salary increases for excluded employees are tied, continue.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1053 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.