STAND. COM. REP. 1319

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1439

H.D. 1

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 1439 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for salary increases and other cost items and adjustments for:

(1) Collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), (9), and (13);

(2) State officers and employees in the executive branch and judicial branch that are excluded from collective bargaining; and

(3) Employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

The Office of Collective Bargaining and Managed Competition and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to be effective upon its approval; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purpose of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 1439, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1439, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair