HB 1125 Summary

• Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items negotiated with bargaining unit (9) for the fiscal biennium 2021-2023, including salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs.

• Provides funding allocations for multiple state departments including the Department of Education, Judiciary, and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, with amounts to be distributed by the Director of Finance.

• Extends salary increases and cost adjustments to excluded state officers and employees who belong to the same compensation plans as bargaining unit (9) members, as authorized by chapter 89C, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

• Specifies that salary increases and cost adjustments for employees whose compensation comes from federal, special, or other funds shall be paid proportionately from those respective funding sources.

• Takes effect on December 25, 2040; fiscal year 2021-2022 appropriations do not lapse until the end of the biennium, with all unexpended funds lapsing on June 30, 2023.