STAND. COM. REP. NO.2244

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2467

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2467 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 mandate binding arbitration for bargaining unit 09, registered professional nurses to resolve contract disputes with a public employer.

Testimony supporting this measure was received from the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO, and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation. Testimony opposing this measure was received from the Office of Collective Bargaining.

Your Committee finds that registered nurses, like police officers and firefighters, provide an essential public service. If left to strike, the health, safety, and welfare of the public could be placed in serious jeopardy. Your Committee believes that potentially jeopardizing the lives of innocent citizens due to a disagreement over a collective bargaining agreement is not in the public's best interest.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2002, deleting the redundant amendment to section 89-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and making technical, nonsubstantive changes.

 

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2467, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2467, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BOB NAKATA, Chair