STAND. COM. REP. NO.  90

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 556

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 556 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the employment status of Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii employees by:

 

     (1)  Requiring Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii officers and employees to be placed in an appropriate collective bargaining unit; and

 

     (2)  Limiting the contracts of officers and employees whose status may be exempted from collective bargaining to a non-renewable contract of no more than three years.

 

     Two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The University of Hawaii, Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, The Nature Conservancy, and numerous individuals testified in opposition of this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance provided comments.


 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the additional collective bargaining and contract requirements for Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii officers and employees;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the collective bargaining and civil service status of Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii officers and employees; and

 

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2115, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 556, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 556, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair