STAND. COM. REP. NO.  814-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2012

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2012, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that the benefits of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund are subject to collective bargaining negotiation.

The Hawaii Government Employees' Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO and University of Hawaii Professional Assembly provided testimony in support of the measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance, Department of the Attorney General, and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, and AFL-CIO provided testimony in opposition.  The Department of Education, Office of Collective Bargaining, City and County of Honolulu Department of Human Resources, and University of Hawaii System provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2012, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair