STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1260

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 924

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 924, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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 increase the efficiency of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.

 

     More specifically, this measure exempts the Board from the requirement to provide notice of hearings by registered or certified mail and instead requires notice to be given by first class mail.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.

 

     Your Committee finds that requiring the Board to provide notice of hearings by first class mail instead of registered or certified mail will save the Board approximately $2,200 per year, without significantly altering the hearing notification process.  This savings will help fund the development of an electronic filing system for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the notice requirement applies to all hearings conducted by the Board.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 924, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 924, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair