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. 1439 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for salary increases for public employees.

Specifically, the bill appropriates funds for all collective bargaining cost items in the agreements negotiated with the exclusive representatives of collective bargaining Units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 13.

Additionally, the bill appropriates funds for salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee believes that this bill should continue to advance in the Legislature as a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, and salary increases and other cost adjustments as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for Units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 13 continue.

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. 1439 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.