Bill Text: HI HB833 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriations for Collective Bargaining Cost Items ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-24 - Act 81, 5/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1181). [HB833 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB833-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 955

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 833

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 833, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide an emergency appropriation for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 for all collective bargaining cost items for salary increases and other wage-related costs in the arbitrated settlement for collective bargaining unit (10) and salary increases and cost adjustments for excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

 

     Your Committee finds that pursuant to the requirements under section 9 of article VII of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 212, requested immediate consideration and passage of this measure by the Legislature to address the expected cost of the arbitration settlement for collective bargaining unit (10).  This measure reflects the arbitration award received on January 10, 2013, and includes no wage reductions for the entire contract period and a 3.2 percent across-the-board increase beginning January 16, 2013.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 833, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair