STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2890

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3079

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 3079 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide appropriations to the legislative agencies, for funding trust fund costs and other costs for certain employees excluded from collective bargaining for fiscal year 2020-2021.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Ombudsman, Office of the Auditor, and the Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission.

Your Committee finds that this measure provides funding for legislative agencies to make cost adjustments for expenses, including salary adjustments for employees excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3079, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3079, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair