STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2912

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2790

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2790 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 biennium 2021-2023 for collective bargaining cost items for the members of collective bargaining unit (9), which consists of registered professional nurses, along with their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that the State and the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (9) 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 (9), along with the corresponding adjustments for the excluded counterparts of the members of collective bargaining unit (9); and

(2) 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 S.B. No. 2790, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2790, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair