STAND. COM. REP. NO.  227-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1955

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1955 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 funding for collective bargaining cost items for the employees in collective bargaining units (3) and (14) and their counterparts who are excluded from collective bargaining.

The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that the appropriation from the general fund to Departmental Administration and Budget Division (BUF 101) shall be to collective bargaining unit (14), instead of collective bargaining unit (3).

     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. 1955, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1955, H.D. 1, 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