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 S.B. No. 1302, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide an emergency appropriation to fund all collective bargaining cost items in the arbitration award for members of Collective Bargaining Unit 10 (institutional, health, and correctional workers) and their excluded counterparts.

The Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter of the Hawaii Government Employees Association and United Public Workers/AFSCME submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee has received a message from the Governor requesting immediate consideration and passage of this bill in accordance with Article VII, section 9, of the State Constitution.

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 S.B. No. 1302, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.