STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1051-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2835

      S.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. 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 Hawai‘i; and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.

     According to Governor's Message No. 11, the Governor requested funding for a one-time subsidy in Fiscal Year 2017 related to the collective bargaining agreement with bargaining unit (8) and that this funding be provided for in the budget appropriation bill (H.B. No. 1700).  Your Committee notes that in order to accomplish this approach, both H.B. No. 1700 and this measure will need to pass the Legislature to fund the collective bargaining agreement.

     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. 2835, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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