HB 715 Summary

• Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2021-2023 to cover collective bargaining cost items negotiated with bargaining unit (6), including salary increases and cost adjustments, with all funding categories set at -0-.

• Provides appropriations for Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for bargaining unit (6) members for fiscal biennium 2021-2023, with general funds appropriation set at -0-.

• Extends salary increases and health benefits fund costs to state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining who belong to the same compensation plans as bargaining unit (6) members.

• Directs the director of finance to allot appropriated funds to appropriate state departments for expenditure in their respective fiscal years.

• Establishes that FY 2021-2022 appropriations shall not lapse until end of fiscal biennium 2021-2023, with any unencumbered funds lapsing by June 30, 2023, and sets the Act's effective date as December 25, 2040.