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HB 1698, HD1, SD1 — Relating to Collective Bargaining Creates a separate bargaining unit (15) for state and county ocean safety and water safety officers. The combining the specialized needs of law enforcement officers and ocean safety officers into one bargaining unit has proven to be impractical as they are two separate and distinct occupational classes. HB 2200, 1-1131, S131 — Relating to the State Budget Appropriates supplemental funds for the operating costs of the Executive Branch of the State of Hawaii for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. Senate Stand. Comm. Rep. No. 3512: "Your Committee finds that this budget will ensure that state government will continue to serve the people of Hawaii with fiscal certainty and fidelity during this most uncertain of economic times. Your Committee recognizes that the State is faced with declining tax revenues at the same time that our communities are suffering through record job losses, business closures, and difficulties in addressing basic needs for themselves and their families. Accordingly, your Committee dutifully assembled a budget that is fiscally prudent while being mindful not to impair the state government's ability to provide stable and dependable services statewide. Working closely with the Committee on Finance of the House of Representatives, your Committee has established a budget that aims to avoid state employee furloughs or pay cuts, which your Committee believes would exacerbate damage to our already fragile local economy. Your Committee has also kept in mind the State's large fixed cost obligations, which alone account for fifty-one percent of the State's budget. Your Committee pursued an overall fiscal strategy that reappropriates and redirects state funds that have gone unspent and supplements or replaces them with proceeds of bond authorizations, thus freeing up cash that can be used immediately for the maintenance of state operations." SB 75, SD2, HD1 Relating to Appropriations Appropriates funds received by the State from the CARES Act to the counties, Departments of Defense, Transportation, Labor ad Industrial Relations, Health, and Human Services, and Office of the Governor for COVID-19 response activities, and deposits the remaining federal funds into the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund (Rainy Day Fund). C1