STAND. COM. REP. NO.  320

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 834

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 H.B. No. 834 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 make emergency appropriations to fund all collective bargaining cost items for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 in the arbitrated settlement for members of collective bargaining unit (11) and their excluded counterparts.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association.

     Your Committee finds that an arbitration hearing for bargaining unit (11) is scheduled for March 2013.  This measure is intended to be the vehicle to fund the amounts after they are awarded by the arbitration panel.

     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. 834 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