STAND. COM. REP. NO.  390

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1069

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1069 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STAFF OF THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Board of Trustees the ability to convert certain civil service exempt positions to civil service positions and to allow the Board to create new civil service exempt positions permanently.

The Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO supported this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts;

     (2)  Clarifying that the appropriation is for the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium;

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     Should your Committee on Finance further deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it insert appropriation amounts of $86,837 for fiscal year (FY) 2017-2018, and $104,616 for FY 2018-2019.

     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 H.B. No. 1069, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1069, 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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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair