Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1438 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative of collective bargaining Unit 1, nonsupervisory employees in blue-collar positions.

This measure also funds the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for nonsupervisory employees in blue-collar positions who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, and salary increases and other cost adjustments, should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for Unit 1 will eventually produce a settlement.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1438 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.