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. 259 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund, for fiscal biennium 2005-2007, all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit (10), institutional, health, and correctional workers.

Additionally, this measure also funds, for fiscal biennium 2005-2007, the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized under chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Judiciary, the Office of Collective Bargaining and Managed Competition, the Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter, and the United Public Workers.

Although no sums have been appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated in the measure, your Committee believes that a vehicle for funding these collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments should continue to advance in the Legislature as negotiations between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative for unit (10) 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. 259, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.