STAND. COM. REP. NO.  85

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 433

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. 433 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 Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for public employees in collective bargaining unit (9) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     The Director of Finance and the Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure should continue to move through the legislative process in the event that the public employer and the exclusive representative of the public employees identified in the measure come to an agreement over cost items during the legislative session.

     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. 433 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