STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2590

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2323

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2323 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for collective bargaining costs for registered professional nurses under bargaining unit 9.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Hawaii Government Employees Association.  Written comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that the registered professional nurses under bargaining unit 9 are currently negotiating their collective bargaining agreements.  If an impasse occurs, an arbitration panel may award terms requiring appropriations for collective bargaining costs.  This measure provides a vehicle for these appropriations.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the appropriation for cost adjustments for excluded executive branch employees in section 15 of the measure is for Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund costs, consistent with the appropriation for their civil service counterparts under section 13 of the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 2323, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair