STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2560

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2835

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, 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 and intent 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.

     Specifically, this measure appropriates funds for:

(1)  Cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit (8); and

(2)  Salary increases and other cost adjustments for state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining and who belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (8).

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, Office of Collective Bargaining, University of Hawaii System, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that in November 2015, an arbitration award was issued for cost adjustments for public employees in collective bargaining unit (8).  Your Committee further finds that this measure will appropriate funds for that arbitration award and for state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining and who belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (8).

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means 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 Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair