Bill Text: HI SB2323 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Hawaii Government Employees Association; Department of Education; Favored Nations; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-13 - (S) Act 111, 6/8/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). [SB2323 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2323-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1020-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2323

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to fund all collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit (9) and for state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining unit (9) due to an impasse in negotiations for fiscal year 2012–2013.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that registered professional nurses under bargaining unit (9) rejected an initial collective bargaining agreement between their exclusive representative and the public employers thus leading to the exclusive representative and the public employer to declare an impasse.  Bargaining unit (9) is subject to binding arbitration as a means of impasse resolution.  As such, an arbitration panel will decide the terms that will be awarded.  If an arbitration panel decides in favor of the nurses, funds will need to be made available for their new contract.  This measure serves as a vehicle for funds to be appropriated.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, 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,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair