STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1148

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 163

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 163, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the employer membership when negotiating collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (9), registered professional nurses, so that there shall be three votes for the Governor, two votes for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Board of Directors, and one vote for the Chief Justice.  

The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and the East Region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation supported this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining and Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the employer membership requirements when negotiating collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (9) and instead requiring for Hawaii Health Systems Corporation supplemental bargaining agreements for bargaining units (1), (2), (3), (4), (9), (10), and (13), that the Governor shall have three votes, the Executive Director of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation shall have one vote, and supplemental agreements be approved concurrent with any master agreement;

     (2)  Requiring that the employer membership when negotiating collective bargaining agreements for bargaining units (5) and (6) shall be four votes for the Governor, two votes for the Board of Education, one vote for the Superintendent of Education, and one vote for a representative selected by a majority of all public charter schools.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 163, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 163, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair