STAND. COM. REP. NO.  923

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1011

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1011, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to change the manner in which disputes over State and county Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) contributions are resolved by repealing:

 

     (1)  The prohibition on using arbitration to resolve disputes and impasses;

 

     (2)  Provisions that set forth the Legislature's role in resolving EUTF contribution disputes through an enactment of law; and

 

     (3)  The prohibition on the right to strike over such contributions.

 

     The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; and the Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.   The Office of Collective Bargaining submitted comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, rather than the American Arbitration Association, upon the failure to timely select the neutral third member of an arbitration panel, to furnish the list of qualified arbitrators from which the neutral third member is to be selected and requiring State arbitrators to be included in that list;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2115, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1011, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1011, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair