CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 169

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2015

RE:    S.B. No. 1079

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam and Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for collective bargaining unit cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for public employees in collective bargaining unit (4) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2015-2017.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that negotiations for collective bargaining units (3) and (4) have been completed and have resulted in a tentative agreement, expected to be ratified, regarding collective bargaining units (3) and (4).  Your Committee on Conference further finds that although a tentative agreement has not been reached for bargaining unit (14), by law, bargaining unit (14) is entitled to the same terms as bargaining units (3) and (4) until a contract is negotiated.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure to reflect the terms of the tentative agreement, expected to be ratified, with regard to collective bargaining units (3) and (4) and applied to bargaining unit (14).  Your Committee on Conference has further amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2015.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Co-Chair	________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair
____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Co-Chair	________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Co-Chair