CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 165

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2013

RE:    S.B. No. 895

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam and Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 895, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (2) and their excluded counterparts. 

     Your Committee on Conference finds that this measure is necessary to serve as a legislative vehicle to appropriate moneys to fund these costs.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1)  Broadening the scope of the appropriations to include all collective bargaining cost items, including wage and salary increases;

(2)  Inserting appropriate amounts for collective bargaining unit (2);

(3)  Adding appropriations for collective bargaining units (3) and (4); and

(4)  Inserting additional means of financing categories to accurately reflect from which source of funding moneys will be appropriated or authorized;

(5)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2013; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 895, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 895, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Co-Chair	____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair
____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Co-Chair	____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Co-Chair