Bill Text: HI HB924 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Hawaii Labor Relations Board; Hearing Notice

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 098, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1198). [HB924 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB924-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  95

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 924

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 924 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt the Hawaii Labor Relations Board from the requirement that notice of hearings be provided to parties by registered or certified mail and instead require that notice be given by first class mail.

 

     This measure also repeals outdated language and updates statutory references.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Office of Collective Bargaining.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition from the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.

 

     Your Committee finds that section 91-9.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to mail hearing notices by registered or certified mail with return receipt requested at least fifteen days before the hearing.  Your Committee further finds that requiring the Board to mail hearing notices by first class mail instead, while retaining the fifteen-day notification period, will save the Board approximately $2,200 per year without significantly altering the hearing notification process.  This savings by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations will be applied toward developing an electronic filing system.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 924 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

		____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair