Bill Text: HI SB1352 | 2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To Public Employment Cost Items.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-07 - Reported from LBT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 109) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM. [SB1352 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2025-SB1352-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1352
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

PART I

     SECTION 1.  There are appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated below to collective bargaining statewide (BUF 102) the following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary to fund for fiscal biennium 2025-2027 all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (7):

                        FY 2025-2026        FY 2026-2027

General funds            13,898,996         31,090,119

Special funds                816,788           1,733,792

Federal funds                362,877             769,827

Trust funds                  76,666             162,591

Revolving funds              261,985             556,593

American Rescue Plan funds    2,869               6,084

     SECTION 2.  Funds appropriated or authorized by this part shall be allotted by the director of finance to the appropriate state departments for expenditure in the respective fiscal year for the purposes of this part.

PART II

     SECTION 3.  There are appropriated or authorized from the sources of funding indicated below to collective bargaining statewide (BUF 102) the following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary to fund for fiscal biennium 2025-2027 the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within bargaining unit (7):

                        FY 2025-2026        FY 2026-2027

General funds              2,200,199           4,738,762

Special funds                344,432             731,751

Federal funds                 11,406             24,189

Revolving funds              8,934             19,239

     SECTION 4.  Funds appropriated or authorized by this part shall be allotted by the director of finance to the appropriate state departments for expenditure in the respective fiscal year for the purposes of this part.

PART III

     SECTION 5.  There are appropriated from the source of funding indicated below to health premium payments (BUF 761) the following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary to fund for fiscal biennium 2025-2027 all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive representative of collective bargaining unit (7):

                        FY 2025-2026        FY 2026-2027

General funds                -0-                -0-

     SECTION 6.  Funds appropriated by this part shall be allotted by the director of finance to the appropriate state departments for expenditure in the respective fiscal year for the purposes of this part.

PART IV

     SECTION 7.  There are appropriated from the source of funding indicated below to health premium payments (BUF 761) the following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary to fund for fiscal biennium 2025-2027 the salary increases and other cost adjustments authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within bargaining unit (7):

                        FY 2025-2026        FY 2026-2027

General funds                -0-                -0-

     SECTION 8.  Funds appropriated by this part shall be allotted by the director of finance to the appropriate state departments for expenditure in the respective fiscal year for the purposes of this part.

PART V

     SECTION 9.  Salary increases and cost adjustments provided in this Act for any officer or employee whose compensation is paid, in whole or in part, from federal, special, or other funds shall be paid wholly or proportionately, as the case may be, from the respective funds.

     SECTION 10.  Funds appropriated or authorized by this Act that are not expended or encumbered by June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, of the respective fiscal years, shall lapse as of those dates.

     SECTION 11.  In accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii and sections 37-91 and 37-93, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the legislature has determined that the state general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2025-2026 has already been exceeded by $8,551,796 or one per cent.  In addition, the appropriations contained in this Act will cause the state general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2025-2026 to be further exceeded by $          , or one per cent.  The reasons for exceeding the general fund expenditure ceiling are that the appropriations made in this Act are necessary to serve the public interest and to meet the needs addressed by this Act.

     SECTION 12.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.

 

 

 

 

Report Title:

Public Employment Cost Items; BU-7; Appropriations; Expenditure Ceiling

 

Description:

Appropriates funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (7) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027.  Effective 7/1/2050.  Declares the expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2025-2026 is exceeded.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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