STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2640

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 Ways and Means, 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 of this measure is to appropriate unspecified amounts for fiscal years 2013-2015, to fund salary increases, collective bargaining cost items, Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs, and other cost adjustments for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (14) (state law enforcement officers, and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers) and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received written comments in support of the measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.  The Department of Budget and Finance submitted written comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that collective bargaining unit (14) has not yet been formed.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle to fund collective bargaining costs for officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (14), along with state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining, but belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees in collective bargaining unit (14).

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means 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 Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair