STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3058

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2861

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. 2861, 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 (7) and their 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 University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.

Your Committee finds that negotiations with this bargaining unit are currently in progress. Allowing this measure to advance through the legislative process will provide a vehicle to appropriate necessary funds if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2020 Regular Session.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

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. 2861, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861, 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