THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 03, 2016

TIME:

9:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2409

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION.

Deletes duplicative provision of awarding grandparents reasonable visitation rights.  Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court find that awarding custody to a grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause actual or potential harm to the child.  Clarifies procedures for awarding visitation.

 

JDL

SB 2835

      Status & Testimony

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

To provide fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit (8) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2015‑2017.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2836

      Status & Testimony

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

To provide fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2015‑2017.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2435

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Specifies that the benefits of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund are subject to negotiation.  Clarifies that a decision of an arbitration panel shall be final.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2723

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT OF WAGE LAWS.

Changes the penalties for government contractors who violate wages and hours laws.  Makes penalties $1,000 for the first offense and ten per cent of the contract amount for the second offense.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2724

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES.

Requires contracts for construction on public lands to comply with wage and hour requirements set forth in chapter 104, HRS.

 

JDL, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair