STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1363

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 816

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 816, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1,706,250 for fiscal year 2019-2020 to resolve compensation differentials for certain Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) Maui Region union members in bargaining units (1) and (10) who were affected by the transfer of the use and exclusive management and operations of Maui Memorial Medical Center, Kula Hospital, and Lanai Community Hospital from HHSC to Maui Health System, a Kaiser Foundation Hospital LLC.

United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO supported this measure. The Office of the Governor and Department of the Attorney General provided comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

Your Committees note the concerns raised by the Department of the Attorney General regarding the scope of the bill's title.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 816, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 816, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Legislative Management.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Health,

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair