STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2694

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 Ways and Means, 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 appropriate funds for collective bargaining cost items for unit 5 employees and their excluded counterparts for fiscal year 2008-2009.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Office of Collective Bargaining.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to fulfill the agreement negotiated between the State and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit 5.

     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. 2493 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair