STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2023

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2836

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2836 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate and authorize funds for the collective bargaining agreement for employees in collective bargaining unit (14) and their excluded counterparts.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the negotiations for collective bargaining agreements for bargaining unit (14) are currently in progress.  According to the Department of Budget and Finance, an arbitration award for collective bargaining unit (14) is expected before the end of February 2016.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle that can be used if an agreement is reached or an arbitration award is issued.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2836, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2836, S.D. 1, and be referred to your 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