STAND. COM. REP. NO.  323

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 832

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. 832 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make emergency appropriations to fund salary increases and other wage related cost items for public employees in collective bargaining unit (9) and their excluded counterparts during fiscal biennium 2011-2013.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

     Your Committee finds that this measure should continue to move through the legislative process as a vehicle to fund arbitration awards that may be rendered 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. 832 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