STAND. COM. REP. NO. 620

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 903

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 903 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for collective bargaining cost items for the employees in collective bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee finds that the appropriations are necessary to cover the expected costs of implementing the collective bargaining agreement currently being negotiated between the State and collective bargaining unit (8) for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 903 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair