STAND. COM. REP. NO.  610

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 816

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. 816 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 collective bargaining cost items for public employees in collective bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; the University of Hawaii System; and the United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

     Your Committee finds that this measure promotes effective and orderly government operations by providing funds to cover the expected costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreement currently being negotiated between the State and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (1).

     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. 816 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