Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2579 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund:

The Judiciary, Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA), and HGEA Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter testified in support of this bill.

Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated in this measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, including salary increases and other cost adjustments, should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representatives for units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 13 will eventually produce a settlement.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

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 H.B. No. 2579, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2579, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.