HB 2373 Summary

• Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Bargaining Units (1) and (10) for fiscal biennium 2023-2025, with all appropriations currently set at $0 across general, special, federal, and other funds.

• Provides funding for salary increases and cost adjustments for state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining who belong to the same compensation plans as bargaining unit members, across multiple state departments including Education, Judiciary, and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

• Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling for fiscal year 2023-2024 has already been exceeded by $1,005,342,735 or 9.4 percent and authorizes further exceeding of the ceiling for emergency purposes.

• Requires salary increases paid from federal, special, or other funds to be paid wholly or proportionately from those respective funding sources rather than general funds.

• Takes effect July 1, 2050, with all unencumbered or unspent funds lapsing on June 30, 2024, and June 30, 2025.