STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1079

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 865

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 865, H.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:

 

(1)  Make employees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) subject to civil service and collective bargaining; and

 

(2)  Give the OHA Board of Trustees, as a whole, voting rights as a public employer with respect to negotiating collective bargaining agreements for Bargaining Units (1), (2), (3), (4), (9), (10), (13), and (14).

 

     The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO and an individual testified in support of this measure.  OHA, Hoomana Pono, LLC., and an individual testified in opposition to this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining, Department of Human Resources Development, and Department of Budget and Finance provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 865, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 865, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair