STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2277

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3062

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3062 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make emergency appropriations for fiscal biennium 2023-2025 for collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for public employees in collective bargaining units (1) and (10), and their excluded counterparts.

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

Your Committee finds that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining units (1) and (10) are currently in progress. This measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued prior to the end of the 2024 Regular Session.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3062 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair