STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1027

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 883

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 883, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a new collective bargaining unit for state law enforcement officers and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services Division of the Emergency Services Department of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Fire Department, Kauai Fire Department, East Hawaii Ocean Safety, Ocean Safety Windward, Hawaiian Lifeguard Association, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Public Safety and Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of the intent of this measure.  An individual testified in opposition to this measure.  The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2013.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 883, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 883, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, 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,

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair