STAND. COM. REP. NO.  606

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 431

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. 431 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 authorize and appropriate funds for public employees in collective bargaining unit (13) and their excluded counterparts, for Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that this measure serves a vehicle to fund collective bargaining unit (13) Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs in the event that an agreement is reached between the State and the exclusive representative of the public employees in collective bargaining unit (13).

     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. 431 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