THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair |
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Senator Karl Rhoads, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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TIME: |
9:05 a.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Clarifies the allowable scope of collective bargaining negotiations regarding the rights and obligations of a public employer. Clarifies prohibited practices for parties to a public employment collective bargaining agreement.
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RELATING TO LABOR. Authorizes the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations or the Director's designee to issue a stop-work order to an employer, until the employer complies with Chapter 388, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the payment of wages and other compensation.
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RELATING TO LABOR. Authorizes the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations or the Director's designee to issue and serve on an employer a stop-work order prohibiting the use of employee labor by the employer until the employer complies with the provisions of section 386-121, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes penalties, enforcement, and protest procedure related to stop-work orders.
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RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE. Amend section 78-23(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Employee's Designation of Beneficiary form to be kept in the department where the employee is employed and also to permit the designation to be filed and maintained electronically.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. Establishes a shared leave program within the department of labor and industrial relations to allow state employees to donate accumulated sick leave and vacation leave credits to a shared leave bank or to another state employee who has a serious personal illness or injury or who has a family member who has a serious personal illness or injury.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' FRINGE BENEFITS. Requires the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund's actuary to prepare an experience study once every three years and a valuation report annually. Reduces the maximum period between experience studies of the public employees' retirement system from five years to three years.
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RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF EXCESS GENERAL FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Implements the state constitutional amendment of Senate Bill No. 2554 of the Regular Session of 2016 that authorizes the disposition of excess general fund revenues to pre-pay general obligation bond debt service or pension or other post-employment benefit liabilities.
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Makes appropriations for the pre-payment of the accrued pension liability and other post-employment benefits liability of the State. Makes an appropriation to the emergency and budget reserve fund. States the intent that this Act is intended to comply with the mandate of Article VII, Section 6, of the Hawaii Constitution regarding the disposition of excess general fund revenues.
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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_____________________________________ Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran Chair |