STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2025-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2782

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2782, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate or authorize funds for fiscal biennium 2021-2023 for collective bargaining cost items, including salary and other cost adjustments, for the members of collective bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; University of Hawai‘i System; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting the appropriate figures for fiscal biennium 2021-2023 based upon the ratified collective bargaining agreement for collective bargaining unit (1), as indicated in Governor's Message No. 6, 2022;

(2) Making it effective upon approval; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2782, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2782, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair