Bill > SB1347

This bill addresses collective bargaining cost items for bargaining unit (2), which typically represents various state employees, for the fiscal biennium 2025-2027. The bill appropriates funds for salary adjustments and cost items negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, specifically for employees in statewide collective bargaining, the judicial administration, and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation. Interestingly, while the bill provides for funding these negotiated adjustments, all the funding lines are currently set at zero, which suggests that the specific dollar amounts will be determined later. The bill also ensures that salary increases for both employees within the bargaining unit and their excluded counterparts (who are in similar compensation plans) will be funded proportionally from federal, special, or other funds as applicable. Additionally, the bill declares that the state general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2025-2026 has already been exceeded by $8,551,796 and notes that the appropriations in this Act are necessary to serve the public interest. The bill is set to take effect on July 1, 2050, which is an unusually distant future date and might be a placeholder or drafting error.

Budget and Finance, Labor and Employment

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=1347&year=2026