STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3863
Honolulu, Hawaii
H.D. 1
S.D. 2
President of the Senate
Thirty-First State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2098, H.D. 1, 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 appropriate or authorize funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 for collective bargaining cost items for the members of collective bargaining unit (10), which consists of institutional, health, and correctional workers, along with their excluded counterparts.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Department of Budget and Finance, University of Hawaii, and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646.
Your Committee finds that the State and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (10) have reached an agreement, which was later ratified by the unit's members. Your Committee further finds that pursuant to section 89-10(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Governor submitted the cost items, and this measure serves as the corresponding legislative approval of those cost items.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting the amounts for the cost items agreed upon between the State and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (10) for fiscal biennium 2021-2023, along with the corresponding adjustments for the excluded counterparts of the members of collective bargaining unit (10);
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2022; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments
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 H.B. No. 2098, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2098, H.D. 1, 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 |
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