STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1708-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2398

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2398, S.D. 2, H.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 allow graduate students employed by the University of Hawaii to collectively bargain by establishing a new collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa Graduate Student Organization; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; ILWU Local 142; University of Hawaii Professional Assembly; and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Budget and Finance, and the University of Hawaii opposed this measure.

     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 S.B. No. 2398, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, 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