STAND. COM. REP. NO. 930

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1387

       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 S.B. No. 1387 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 for fiscal biennium 2007-2009 to pay for the collective bargaining cost items relating to salary increases and other cost adjustments for members of bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts.

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Office of Collective Bargaining and representatives of the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

     Your Committee finds that negotiations between the public employer and the exclusive bargaining representative are in progress, as the current contract period will expire on June 30, 2007.  This measure is a vehicle that must be kept alive in order to make the necessary appropriations in the event of a settlement.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical amendments.

     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 S.B. No. 1387, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1387, 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