STAND. COM. REP. NO.3192

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2276

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2276, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow a public employer and an exclusive representative to determine whether non-cost items that are not tied to or bargained against cost items will become effective upon ratification, upon the acceptance of all cost items by the appropriate legislative body, or at some other agreed upon time.

Your Committee finds that existing law makes all non-cost items in a collective bargaining agreement valid, enforceable, and effective before the acceptance of all cost items by the appropriate legislative body. In recognition of the fact that public employers and exclusive representatives occasionally exchange concessions on cost items for concessions on non-cost items, and vice-versa, your Committee finds that existing law actually fragments the collective bargaining process and undermines the work of negotiators. This measure is intended to give negotiators the power to determine, through the collective bargaining process, whether non-cost items that are not tied to or bargained against cost items will become effective upon ratification, upon the acceptance of all cost items by the appropriate legislative body, or at some other agreed upon time.

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. 2276, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair