STAND. COM. REP. NO.  998

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 232

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 232, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the permissive scope of collective bargaining negotiations regarding the rights and obligations of a public employer.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO; University of Hawaii Professional Assembly; and Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463, IAFF, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Education, and University of Hawaii testified in opposition.

     Your Committee amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2017.

     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 H.B. No. 232, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 232, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair