Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1595 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit (5), teachers and other personnel of the department of education under the same pay schedule, including part-time employees working less than twenty hours a week who are equal to one-half of a full-time equivalent, and their excluded counterparts.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Collective Bargaining and Managed Competition and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the source of funding indicated in this measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for unit (5) will eventually produce a settlement.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1595, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.