STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1666-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2837

      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. 2837, 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:

(1)  Authorize funds for all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of Collective Bargaining Unit 11; and

(2)  Appropriate or authorize funds for 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 11.

The Department of Budget and Finance, Office of Collective Bargaining, and Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463, IAFF, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Deleting provisions that appropriate or authorize funds for 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 11; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 2837, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2837, 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