STAND. COM. REP. NO.  186

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1367

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1367 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow charter schools and their employees more flexibility to negotiate collective bargaining agreements that work for their unique environments and missions.  Specifically, this measure allows governing boards of charter schools and exclusive representatives to enter into master agreements separate from any other master agreement collectively bargained for between the exclusive representatives and the Department of Education.

 

     Hawaii Public Charter Schools Network, Hale Kipa, and Enterprise Honolulu supported this measure.  The Hawaii State Teachers Association opposed this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Allowing governing boards of charter schools and exclusive representatives to enter into:

 

(A)  A single master agreement rather than separate master agreements; and

 

(B)  Supplemental agreements that contain only noncost items to facilitate decentralized decision-making and addresses the needs of individualized charter schools; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1367, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1367, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair