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. 1444 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds for funding all collective bargaining cost items for fiscal biennium 2003-2005 in the agreement negotiated with collective bargaining unit (12).

The Office of Collective Bargaining opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure 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. 1444, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1444, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.