STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2036

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2073

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2073 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide a legislative vehicle to fund pending public sector collective bargaining cost items for salary adjustments, other cost adjustments, and Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs for public employees in collective bargaining unit (6) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

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

     Your Committee finds that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (6) are currently in progress.  According to the Department of Budget and Finance, continuation of the arbitration hearing for bargaining unit (6) is scheduled for February 3-5, 2014.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2014 Regular Session.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2073 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair