STAND. COM. REP. NO.  694

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 Finance, 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 salary increases and other wage related costs in the arbitrated settlement for members of collective bargaining unit (11) and their excluded counterparts.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in his Governor's Message No. 213 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature to fund all collective bargaining cost items for salary increases and other wage related costs in the arbitrated settlement for members of collective bargaining unit (11) and their excluded counterparts.

The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Fire Fighters Association testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance 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 Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair