Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1581, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund Health Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs negotiated for state employees in Collective Bargaining Unit (7). In addition, this bill funds the Health Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for certain state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as persons from Unit (7).

The Office of Collective Bargaining supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2006; and

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. 1581, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1581, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.