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. 1584, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to fund, for fiscal biennium 2005-2007, cost items relating to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for Collective Bargaining Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts belonging to the same compensation plans.

The Office of Collective Bargaining and Managed Competition, Hawaii Government Employees Association Managerial and Confidential Employees Chapter, and Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463, LAFF, AFL-CIO, testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1584, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1584, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.