STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2451
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2884
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2884, S.D. 1, 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 moneys to fund collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit (10) relating to the employer contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO. The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that this measure appropriates moneys to fund collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit (10) relating to employer contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund that have not been finalized or agreed upon through state and union negotiations. Your Committee further finds that the measure would establish the employer health insurance premium contribution rate at sixty per cent of the premium cost, which would return the sharing of health plan premium costs between the State and employees of bargaining unit (10) to a more historical level.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to further discussion on the measure.
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. 2884, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2884, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair |
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