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. 1445 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funds to cover any salary increases that may be authorized for officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

Specifically, this bill appropriates unspecified amounts to cover salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for excluded officers and employees of the Office of the Auditor, the Ethics Commission, the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the Ombudsman.

Your Committee believes that this bill is necessary to make funds available to pay for any salary increases and cost adjustments for the excluded offices and employees of the agencies listed above.

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. 1445 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.