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 H.B. No. 1042 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative of bargaining unit 1 (nonsupervisory employees in blue collar positions) for fiscal biennium 2003-2005.

This bill also funds salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by Chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for nonsupervisory employees in blue collar positions who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee finds that cost items in the unit 1 collective bargaining agreement are currently being negotiated with the exclusive representative. This measure will serve as a vehicle for the Legislature to appropriate and authorize funds for cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments upon completion of negotiations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

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 H.B. No. 1042, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1042, S.D. 1.