Bill Text: HI HB2495 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining Cost Items

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-13 - (S) Act 109, 6/8/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). [HB2495 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2495-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 119-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2495

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2495, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide for employer contribution amounts for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund health benefit plan premiums for plan years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 for employees of Collective Bargaining Unit (11) and for state officers and employees excluded from Collective Bargaining Unit (11).

 

     According to the Office of the Governor, a settlement has been reached for salary increases and other cost adjustments related to "favored nations" provisions in a supplemental agreement negotiated between the University of Hawaii and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), and (8) for employees of the University of Hawaii.  Accordingly, your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language that appropriates or authorizes funds to be used for:

 

     (1)  Salary increases and other cost adjustments related to "favored nation" provisions in the supplemental agreement negotiated between the University of Hawaii and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), and (8) for employees of the University of Hawaii, and their excluded counterparts, for fiscal biennium 2011-2013; and

 

     (2)  Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs related to "favored nation" provisions contained in the supplemental agreement negotiated between the University of Hawaii and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit (8), and their excluded counterparts, for fiscal biennium 2011-2013.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2495, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2495, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair
____________________________ MICHELLE KIDANI, Co-Chair		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Co-Chair