STAND. COM. REP. NO.  618

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 1170

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1170 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 the collective bargaining cost items of public employees in collective bargaining unit (6) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that the appropriations are necessary to cover the expected costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreement currently being negotiated between the State and bargaining unit (6), for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1170 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair