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. 1382 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund the salary increases and other cost adjustments for officers and employees of the following legislative agencies who are excluded from collective bargaining:

(1) Office of the Auditor;

(2) Ethics Commission;

(3) Office of the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB); and

(4) Office of the Ombudsman.

The Office of the Auditor, LRB, Office of the Ombudsman, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter testified in support of the bill.

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. 1382, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1382, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.