STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1073

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 1065

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

(1)  Create a new collective bargaining unit, Collective Bargaining Unit (14), to represent state law enforcement officers; and

(2)  Prohibit the Hawaii Labor Relations Board from directing an election in a bargaining unit that has been established for less than an unspecified number of months and is composed of employees who are currently covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement.

     The Department of Public Safety; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; several concerned individuals from the Hawaii State Sheriff Division; and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety & Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety & Military Affairs,

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair