STAND. COM. REP. NO.1267

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1096

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1096, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to address and resolve the uncertainty raised by the Hawaii Supreme Court in Konno v. County of Hawaii, 85 Haw. 61 (1997), with regard to the government's ability to rely on the private sector for services government needs or is required to provide.

Specifically, this bill establishes a new chapter on Privatization in the Hawaii Revised Statutes, effective January 28, 2092.

The Department of Accounting and General Services, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Paul Louie & Associates, Inc., Building Industry Association of Hawaii, National Federation of Independent Business-Hawaii, Plumbers and Fitters Local 675, and others submitted testimony in support of this bill. The United Public Workers opposed the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Restoring the right to strike for all collective bargaining units, except firefighters and police officers;

(2) Repealing statutory references to essential employees and essential positions;

(3) Providing for ways to minimize the adverse effects on public workers displaced by privatization;

(4) Making the new chapter on privatization sunset June 30, 2005;

(5) Amending the effective date to July 1, 2001; and

(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1096, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1096, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair