STAND. COM. REP. NO.  89

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 468

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 468 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a new collective bargaining unit, bargaining unit (15), for employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Corporate Board and the East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.  United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Making nonsubstantive technical amendments for the purpose of consistency; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2090, to encourage further discussion.

     Your Committee notes that concerns were raised in testimony at the public hearing on this measure regarding the inclusion of both supervisory and nonsupervisory employees across all categories in the same bargaining unit.  The current statutory division of bargaining units provides for the inclusion of supervisory employees in separate categories when appropriate.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 468, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 468, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair