STAND. COM. REP. NO.  693

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 Finance, 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 appropriate funds to cover the expected cost of the arbitration settlement for collective bargaining unit (9).  Specifically, this measure provides for an emergency appropriation for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 for all collective bargaining cost items for salary increases and other wage related costs in the arbitrated settlement for collective bargaining unit (9).

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 211 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature to address the expected cost of the arbitration settlement for collective bargaining unit (9).

The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.

     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. 832 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