STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1182

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 935

      S.D. 2

      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 S.B. No. 935, S.D. 2, 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 authorize the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) to employ staff through the civil service system and to appropriate funds for that purpose.

The EUTF Board of Trustees and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to unspecified amounts; and

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

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $86,837 for fiscal year 2017-2018 and $104,616 for fiscal year 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 S.B. No. 935, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 935, S.D. 2, 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