STAND. COM. REP. NO. 752-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2655

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2655 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 appropriate funds for public employment cost items and cost adjustments for employees of the Senate, House of Representatives, and various legislative agencies who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Auditor; Office of the Ombudsman; and Hawaiʻi State Ethics Commission.

Your Committee finds that this measure appropriates funds necessary to fund public employment cost items and other cost adjustments for employees of the Legislature and legislative agencies who are excluded from collective bargaining.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2655, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2655, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair