STAND. COM. REP. NO. 590

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 944

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 944, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS RELATED TO THE TRANSITION OF MAUI REGION HOSPITALS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for collective bargaining cost items to facilitate the transition of Maui region hospital employees to employment with Maui Health Systems, a Kaiser Foundation Hospitals LLC.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; the Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO.

 

     Your Committee finds that in 2015 and 2016, the State entered into an agreement to transfer the management and operation of Maui region hospitals to Maui Health Systems, a Kaiser Foundation Hospitals LLC, with the official transfer now scheduled to occur on July 1, 2017.  Your Committee further finds that negotiations for the various collective bargaining unit agreements applicable to Maui region hospital employees are currently in progress.  This measure provides a legislative vehicle to appropriate necessary funds if agreements are reached prior to the end of the 2017 Regular Session.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 944, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair