STAND. COM. REP. NO.  609

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 434

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. 434 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 cost items for public officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (6) and their excluded counterparts, including Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust fund benefits 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 as a vehicle to authorize and appropriate funds for collective bargaining unit (6) cost items that are currently under negotiation, in the event the parties come to an agreement or an arbitration award is issued for the cost items prior to the end of the regular session of 2013.

     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. 434 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