STAND. COM. REP. NO. 594

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1082

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for all collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for state employees and officers in the Executive Branch, the Judiciary, and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, in collective bargaining unit (3) and its excluded counterparts.

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Randy Perreira, Executive Director, Hawaii Government Employees Association.

     Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from Kalbert K. Young, Director, Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that appropriations are necessary to cover the collective bargaining costs, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for the members of collective bargaining unit (3) and its excluded counterparts.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 1082, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair