STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2115

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2816

       S.D. 1

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. 2816 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COSTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate a specified amount from the general fund to support employment costs for University of Hawaii collective bargaining unit (7) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal year 2014-2015.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; University of Hawaii System; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; University of Hawaii Professional Assembly; and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the general fund appropriation requested in this measure represents the restoration of general funds for faculty salaries that were reduced during the recession as well as for the modest three percent salary increases that were negotiated for each year of fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2816, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2816, S.D. 1, 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