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. 1045 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to cover collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit 7.

The measure also appropriates funds for salary increases and cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee finds that the measure serves as an appropriate vehicle for continued discussion on the issue and as a vehicle to provide funding upon reaching a collective bargaining settlement.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to facilitate discussion on the issue.

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. 1045, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1045, S.D. 1.