STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1548

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 260

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 260 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund, for fiscal biennium 2005-2007, all salary increases and collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit 11, firefighters.

This measure also funds, for the fiscal biennium 2005-2007, the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized under chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees in the executive branch who are excluded from collective bargaining and who belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit 11. All amounts appropriated in this measure are unspecified.

Your Committee has amended this measure specifying all appropriated amounts according to information supplied by the Governor as follows:

(1) Adding general fund appropriation amounts of $47,138 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $104,965 in fiscal year 2006-2007, and providing for allocation and expenditure in sections 7 and 8, for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for collective bargaining unit 11;

(2) Adding general fund appropriation amounts of $1,342 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $3,003 for fiscal year 2006-2007, and providing for allocation and expenditure in sections 9 and 10, for the same costs for staff in the executive branch who are excluded from collective bargaining and who belong to the same compensation plans as staff in collective bargaining unit 11;

(3) With regard to salary increases and cost adjustments for members of collective bargaining unit 11 in section 1 by:

(A) Replacing the unspecified special fund appropriation amounts with $412,547 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $1,147,516 for fiscal year 2006-2007; and

(B) Adding general fund appropriation amounts of $53,114 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $147,730 for fiscal year 2006-2007;

(4) With regard to salary increases and cost adjustments for employees excluded from collective bargaining in section 3 by:

(A) Replacing the unspecified special fund appropriation amounts with $34,564 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $83,831 for fiscal year 2006-2007; and

(B) Adding general fund appropriation amounts of $4,793 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $11,613 for fiscal year 2006-2007;

(5) Clarifying that appropriations are allotted for expenditure by adding the phrase "for expenditure" in sections 2 and 4; and

(6) Making various technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 260, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 260, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair