Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 531 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require that adjustments to compensation and benefit packages for excluded civil service employees be at least equal to compensation and benefit packages provided under collective bargaining agreements for employees within the same jurisdiction.

Hawaii Government Employees Association and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Human Resource Development submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

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. 531 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.