STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 36

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 290

S.D. 1

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 290 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the law relating to collective bargaining.

Your Committee finds that certain issues should be available for negotiations between an employer and the exclusive representative for a collective bargaining unit. Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with the following amendments:

(1) An amendment to section 89-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that:

(A) Deletes language regarding those issues over which an employer and exclusive representative may not negotiate;

(B) Includes a new subsection that provides for the ability to negotiate over discretionary issues of collective bargaining; and

(C) Includes a new subsection which provides that nothing in the section shall be construed as inconsistent with the right of public employees to engage in collective bargaining; and

(2) An amendment to section 89-19, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that clarifies that chapter 89 shall superceded all other laws to the contrary.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 290, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 290, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Labor, for further consideration.

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

		____________________________ BRIAN KANNO, Chair