STAND. COM. REP. NO.  106

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 1167

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1167 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 and authorize funds for fiscal biennium 2013 to 2015 to cover collective bargaining cost items for the public officers and employees of collective bargaining unit (4) and their counterparts who are excluded from collective bargaining.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Director of Finance and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committee finds that this measure promotes effective and orderly government operations by providing funds to cover the costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the State and the exclusive representative for collective bargaining unit (4) for the fiscal biennium commencing on July 1, 2013.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1167 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair