STAND. COM. REP. NO. 267

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1026

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1026 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Bargaining Units (2), (3), (4), (8), (9), (13), and (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal year 2024-2025.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; University of Hawaiʻi System; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; and one individual.

Your Committee amended this measure by:

(1) Including Bargaining Units (1) and (10); and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1026, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1026, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JACKSON D. SAYAMA, Chair