STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1056

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 905

      S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 905, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a legislative means to fund the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for the employees in collective bargaining unit (9) 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 State and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (9) are currently in negotiations, and this measure is necessary to appropriate funds for the expected costs of that agreement for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     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 S.B. No. 905, S.D. 1, 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