STAND. COM. REP. NO. 29

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1011

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1011 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 repeal the prohibition on arbitration to resolve disputes regarding contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Hawaii Government Employees Association, and Hawaii State Teachers Association.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Collective Bargaining.

     Your Committee finds that this measure would enable impasses or disputes relating to contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund to be decided, along with other collective bargaining items, through binding arbitration.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage 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. 1011, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1011, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair