Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1041 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by Chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining from the Office of the Auditor, the Hawaii State Ethics Commission, the Office of the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the Office of the Ombudsman for the fiscal biennium 2003-2005.

The Office of Collective Bargaining, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Hawaii State Ethics Commission, the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter of the Hawaii Government Employees Association submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee believes that this measure should remain available for action throughout the legislative process as negotiations between the State and exclusive bargaining representative to which salary increases for excluded employees are tied, continue.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1041, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.