STAND. COM. REP. NO 473

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 163

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 163 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Provide the Chair of the State Public Charter School Commission with a vote for collective bargaining for units (5) and (6); and

 

     (2)  Establish that for collective bargaining for unit (9), there shall be three votes for the Governor, two for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Board, and one for each mayor.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Collective Bargaining and Hawaii Government Employees Association.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, Department of the Attorney General, and Public Charter School Commission.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure would allow the public charter schools a vote on collective bargaining matters involving their employees within units (5) and (6).  With regard to collective bargaining unit (9), your Committee finds that the Judiciary should have a vote, as employees of the Judiciary are included in that unit.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing the public charter schools with a vote on negotiations regarding collective bargaining units (5) and (6) and requiring the representative of the public charter schools to be selected by the Public Charter School Commission;

 

     (2)  Removing the allocation of votes to the mayors for bargaining unit (9) and instead allocating one vote to the Chief Justice; and

 

     (3)  Inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 163, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 163, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair