STAND. COM. REP. NO.  86

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 Labor & Public Employment, 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 appropriate and authorize funds for cost items for collective bargaining unit (6) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, including the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs.

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

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to cover the costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the State and the exclusive representative for collective bargaining unit (6) for the fiscal biennium beginning 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. 434 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