STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1303

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 820

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 820 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide a legislative vehicle to fund pending public sector collective bargaining cost items for salary adjustment and other cost adjustments for public employees in collective bargaining unit (5) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii State Teachers Association.

     Your Committees find that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (5) are currently in progress.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2013 Regular Session.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the title for program ID BUF 101 from "program planning, analysis, budgeting" to "departmental administration and budget division" to reflect the appropriate program ID title;

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 820, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 820, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair