STAND. COM. REP. NO.  20

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 126

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 126 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to fund Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs and other cost adjustments for officers and employees of specified legislative agencies who are excluded from collective bargaining.

The Office of the Auditor, Office of the Ombudsman, Hawaii State Ethics Commission, Legislative Reference Bureau, and League of Women Voters testified in support of this measure.

     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 H.B. No. 126 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,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair