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. 2584 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund all collective bargaining cost items for Collective Bargaining Unit 1.

In addition, this bill funds the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for certain state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association, Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter, and UPW, Local 646, supported this bill. The Judiciary supported the measure with amendments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, 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. 2584, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2584, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.