STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1647

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1570

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1570 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to pay for the salary increases and collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit (11).

The foregoing includes contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, for employees in collective bargaining unit (11) and for their excluded counterparts.

     Your Committee received comments in support of the measure from the Hawaii Firefighters Association.  Comments were received from the Office of Collective Bargaining.

     Your Committee finds that the funding amounts for salary increases and cost items have been finalized pursuant to both arbitration and agreement.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting the finalized dollar amounts for the respective appropriations.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1570, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1570, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair