STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2752

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2896

       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. 2896, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is require the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to:

     (1)  Serve complaints or require complainants to serve complaints by first class mail or electronic mail; and

     (2)  Provide written notice of a hearing by first class mail or electronic service through a company designated by the Board at least fifteen days before the scheduled date of the hearing.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Labor Relations Board.

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, the Hawaii Labor Relations Board may serve complaints and notices of hearings on a party by delivery to the person, mail, or telegram.  However, the electronic service of complaints and notices is a faster and less expensive method of service.  Implementation of this measure will reduce costs and provide a more efficient process to accommodate all parties.

     As this measure moves through the legislative process, your Committee requests that consideration be given to the establishment of standards for the use of electronic means to serve complaints and provide hearing notices as proposed by this measure.

     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. 2896, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair