STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2038
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2075
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. 2075 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 (14) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO. The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments.
Your Committee finds that Act 137, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, established a new collective bargaining unit (14) to represent state law enforcement officers and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers. Although this new bargaining unit has yet to be formed, this measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached prior to the end of the 2014 Regular Session. Your Committee notes that collective bargaining unit (14) members are covered under contracts for collective bargaining units (3) and (4) and their excluded counterparts until the new bargaining unit is formed and an agreement is reached.
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. 2075 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 |
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