STAND. COM. REP. NO.  909-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 1065

      S.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make emergency appropriations to fund salary increases and other collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit (11), as well as its excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement between public employers and collective bargaining unit (11).

The Department of Budget and Finance; Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463, IAFF, ALF-CIO; and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 164 to the Legislature, requests immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature, citing the necessity of prompt attention to this matter to appropriate funds for collective bargaining cost items in the arbitrated settlement for collective bargaining unit (11) and its excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________

MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair