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SB3091Introduced in the Senate

Making Emergency Appropriations For Public Employment Cost Items.

IntroducedSenate Ways and Means

Introduced by Ronald Kouchi, District 8

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Bargaining Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2025-2027. Effective 1/1/2077. (SD1)

Where it stands

Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

February 12, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

SenateStage: Senate Labor and Technology: Passed, With Amendments · February 6, 2026

5

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

5 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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SenatorDistrictVote
Les Ihara10Yes
Sharon Moriwaki12Yes
Brandon Elefante16Yes
Rachele Fernandez Lamosao19Yes
Kurt Fevella20Yes

Bill history

  1. Pending Introduction.

  2. Introduced.

  3. Passed First Reading.

  4. Referred to LBT, WAM.

  5. The committee(s) on LBT has scheduled a public hearing on 02-06-26 3:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

  6. The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Elefante, Lamosao, Ihara, Moriwaki, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

  7. Received from Governor re: emergency appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 3).

  8. Reported from LBT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 2213) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

  9. Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM.

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