STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2843
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 87
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 87, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to establish a new collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers, including part-time substitute teachers, of the Department of Education.
Your Committee finds that substitute teachers provide vital assistance to the schools and the students.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Giving substitute teachers the option of joining an appropriate and existing bargaining unit;
(2) Substituting the current language of section 89-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than the language that section will revert to on July 1, 2008, pursuant to the repeal and reenactment provision of Act 245, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
Your Committee has concerns about allowing part-time employees to join a union but also recognizes that this measure is a "work in progress" and deserves continued discussion.
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 S.B. No. 87, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 87, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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