STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2798

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2259

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2259, S.D. 1, 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 prohibit parties in the arbitration phase of public sector collective bargaining from including in their final positions any proposals that were not previously submitted in writing before impasse and about which an impasse in bargaining has not been reached.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of the measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association and the United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO.  Written comments in opposition to the measure were received from the Department of Budget and Finance, the Office of Collective Bargaining in the Executive Office of the Governor, and the Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will limit the scope of matters that are subject to a public employment collective bargaining arbitration proceeding.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2259, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair