STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1170

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 859

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 859, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the collective bargaining law by:

     (1)  Validating collective bargaining agreements, in effect        on or after July 1, 2007, that negotiate items                   specifically excluded from negotiations under the law;

     (2)  Allowing negotiations over assignments and terminations;      and

     (3)  Requiring negotiations over the impact of transfers,               assignments, and layoffs of employees.

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this bill.  The Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Education, Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Judiciary, Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu Fire Department, Honolulu Police Department, Police Department of the County of Hawaii, Department of Human Resources of the County of Hawaii, Fire Department of the County of Hawaii, and Fire Department of the County of Kauai opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Ensuring that the amendments to subsection 89-9(d),            Hawaii Revised Statutes, in this bill will not be              automatically repealed on July 1, 2008, pursuant to           the provisions of section 8 of Act 245, Session Laws of       Hawaii 2005; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct         drafting errors.

     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 H.B. No. 859, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 859, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair