STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2362

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2380

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2380 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys for collective bargaining cost items for Judiciary employees and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from The Judiciary and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

Your Committees find that in January 2020, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic a public health emergency. On March 4, 2020, Governor David Ige issued the first of several emergency proclamations pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic for the State, with the last of those proclamations expiring on March 25, 2022. Unions representing public employees in the State have been pursuing claims for temporary hazard pay for work performed by government employees during the COVID-19 pandemic pursuant to the hazard pay provisions of the respective collective bargaining agreements. This measure will allow the Judiciary to secure the funding necessary to fulfill its obligation to union members pursuing claims for temporary hazard pay for work performed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2380 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Technology,

________________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair