STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3346

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2860

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2860, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make appropriations for collective bargaining unit cost items, salary adjustments, and other cost items for public employees in collective bargaining unit (4) and the employees' excluded counterparts for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, University of Hawaii, and Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committee finds that an arbitration award addressing collective bargaining unit (4) was issued without sufficient time for applicable funds to be included in the General Appropriations Act of 2019. Accordingly, it is necessary to submit a separate measure to appropriate funds for fiscal biennium 2019-2021 to cover the cost items and adjustments for this collective bargaining unit.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2860, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2860, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair