STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1152-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2556

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ANNUAL REQUIRED CONTRIBUTION FOR THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the annual required contribution for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO and the University of Hawai‘i Professional Assembly opposed this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund provided comments.

     Your Committee amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2091 to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair