REPORT Title:

Collective Bargaining Cost Items; Two-year Limitation

Description:

Requires the public employer and the exclusive representative for each bargaining unit to include provisions in their respective collective bargaining agreement that provide for a duration not exceeding two years.  (SB1780 HD2)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1780
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007		S.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 2

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 89-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  Because effective and orderly operations of government are essential to the public, it is declared to be in the public interest that in the course of collective bargaining, the public employer and the exclusive representative for each bargaining unit shall by mutual agreement include provisions in [the collective bargaining agreement for that bargaining unit for an expiration date which will be] their respective collective bargaining agreements that provide for a duration not exceeding two years and ending on June [30^th] 30 of an odd-numbered year.

     The parties may include provisions for reopening during the term of a collective bargaining agreement; provided that cost items as defined in section 89-2 shall be subject to the requirements of this section."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon on July 1, 2020.