STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1664-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2835

      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. 2835, S.D. 1, 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 funds for collective bargaining unit (8) cost items and related expenses for public employees in collective bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts.

The Department of Budget and Finance, Office of Collective Bargaining, University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating $2,560,282 to subsidize collective bargaining cost items in the collective bargaining agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of bargaining unit (8), for non-general and unbudgeted positions.  Technical nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2835, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2835, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair