STAND. COM. REP. NO. 771

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1065

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1065 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Create a new bargaining unit 14 to represent state law enforcement officers; and

     (2)  Clarify that no election shall be directed by the Hawaii Labor Relations Board in any newly created bargaining unit of employees who are currently covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement.

     Your Committee finds that the new bargaining unit 14 proposed under this measure would provide for collective bargaining representation exclusively for state law enforcement officers, who have needs and issues that are distinct from those of members in bargaining units 3 and 4, under which state law enforcement officers are currently represented.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1065, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair