STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1137

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1567

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1567 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure appropriates funds for salary increases and makes other cost adjustments for state officers and employees from legislative agencies and who are excluded from collective bargaining.

     Testimony in support was received from the State Ethics Commission, State Auditor, Ombudsman, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (AFSCME), and Legislative Reference Bureau.

     Your committee finds that this measure is necessary for these excluded employees in the event that their counterparts receive negotiated increases under collective bargaining.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.

No. 1567, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair