STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2277

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2896

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2896 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to serve complaints and notices of hearings by first class mail and electronic mail.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Labor Relations Board and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, the Hawaii Labor Relations Board may serve complaints and notices of hearings on a party by delivery to the person, mail, or telegram.  However, the electronic service of complaints and notices is a faster and less expensive method of service.  Implementation of this measure will save costs and provide a more efficient process to accommodate all parties.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2896, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2896, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Operations,

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair