STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1603-16

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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, H.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 appropriate funds to the Department of Budget and Finance for the annual required contribution for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO opposed this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance and Board of Trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund commented on this measure.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2556, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair