STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2461

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1065

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, 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 and intent of this measure is to make emergency appropriations to fund salary increases as well as other collective bargaining cost items for collective bargaining unit (11), as well as their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement between public employers and collective bargaining unit (11).

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association.

     Your Committee finds that emergency appropriations are needed for public employers to comply with the terms of the agreement negotiated between public employers and collective bargaining unit (11).

     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. 1065, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair