STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2294

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2493

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2493 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Appropriate funds necessary for all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining Unit 5; and

     (2)  Appropriate funds for salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees in the executive branch who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plan as those officers and employees within collective bargaining Unit 5.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from Hawaii State Teachers Association.  Comments were submitted by the Office of Collective Bargaining.

     Your Committee finds that these funds are necessary to meet the collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining Unit 5 and for various salary increases.

     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 S.B. No. 2493 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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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair