STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1311

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1561

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Tourism and Government Operations and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1561 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish labor representation procedures in developments in which the State or counties have an ongoing proprietary interest.

     Testimony in support was received from Local 5 Hawaii, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and Hawaii Teamsters and Allied Workers, Local 996.  Opposing testimony was received from Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Collective Bargaining, Associated Builders and Contractors, Hawaii.

     Concerns related to Special Purpose Revenue Bond Projects and the impact this measure may have on these types of projects were raised.  Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by excluding Special Purpose Revenue Bond projects.  The Office of the Collective Bargaining stated that this measure was circumventing provisions in Chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  However, Chapter 89 pertains to public employees and therefore would not have any impact on or be affected by this measure.  

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Tourism and Government Operations and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1561, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1561, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Tourism and Government Operations and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair	____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair
	____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair