STAND. COM. REP. NO. 927

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 891

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. 891 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 contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for officers and employees in collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), (9), and (13), and their excluded counterparts.

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Office of Collective Bargaining and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to fund the premium costs associated with the anticipated agreement between the public employer and the exclusive representative of the bargaining units.

     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. 891 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