Bill Text: HI SB904 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Bargaining Unit (9); Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-24 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-13 10:30AM in conference room 325. [SB904 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB904-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 63

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 904

       S.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 S.B. No. 904 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide a legislative vehicle to appropriate employer contribution amounts to cover Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund health benefit plan premiums for public employees in collective bargaining unit (9) and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2011-2013.

 

     Your Committee did not receive testimony regarding this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that the registered professional nurses under collective bargaining unit (9) did not ratify their 2011-2013 collective bargaining agreements.  If an arbitration panel decides in favor of the nurses, funds may be necessary to cover any cost adjustments as a result of the arbitration award issued.  This measure serves as a legislative vehicle for funds to be appropriated.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Establishing that the funds appropriated by this measure shall apply retroactively to July 1, 2011; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 904, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 904, S.D. 1, 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