STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1052-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2836

      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. 2836, 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 make appropriations for collective bargaining and other related cost items for state law enforcement officers and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers who comprise collective bargaining unit (14)("Unit 14"), and their excluded counterparts.

The Department of Budget and Finance, Office of Collective Bargaining, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO (HGEA) testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to incorporate the recommendations from Governor's Message No. 13 dated February 24, 2016, which reflect the arbitration award issued for HGEA for Unit 14.  Specifically, your Committee has amended this measure to:

(1)  Appropriate the following amounts for collective bargaining cost items for salary increases and other wage related costs negotiated with the exclusive collective bargaining representative of Unit 14 for fiscal year 2016-2017:

     (A)  $6,585,486 from general funds;

     (B)  $561,439 from special funds; and

     (C)  $1,074,879 from intergovernmental transfers;

(2)  Appropriate $174,810 in general funds for fiscal year 2016-2017 for salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized for state and county employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees with Unit 14; and

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2836, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2836, 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