STAND. COM. REP. 1273

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 768

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 768, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reinstate binding arbitration for employees of collective bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), and (13) in the event of an impasse between the employer and exclusive representative of the collective bargaining unit.

The Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii Government Employees Association supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Human Resources Development, Department of the Attorney General, and Office of Collective Bargaining and Managed Competition opposed the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to December 31, 2004.

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 S.B. No. 768, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 768, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair