(1) Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to declare an impasse by January 31 of the year in which a collective bargaining agreement is due to expire, rather than by April 15 of an even-numbered year;

(2) Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to compel a public employer and an exclusive representative to attend mediation after the twentieth day of an impasse and until the fiftieth day of an impasse;

(3) Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to inform the appropriate legislative bodies, on or about the fiftieth day of an impasse, that mandatory mediation has failed to resolve the impasse;

(4) Allows a public employer and an exclusive representative, after the fiftieth day of an impasse, to resort to such other remedies that are not prohibited by any agreement pending between them, other provisions of the collective bargaining law, or any other law;

(5) Requires an exclusive representative to give a statement of its position on all remaining issues in dispute to a public employer and the Hawaii Labor Relations Board when the exclusive representative gives its ten-day notice of intent to strike;

(6) Requires a public employer, within three days of receipt of a notice of intent to strike, to submit its position on the remaining issues in dispute that are included in the statement transmitted by the exclusive representative with its notice of intent to strike; and

(7) Gives part-time faculty of the University of Hawaii or graduate students with compensated teaching of research duties, herein constituted as bargaining unit (14), the right-to-strike like faculty of the University of Hawaii and the community college system in bargaining unit (7).