Bill Text: HI HB151 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Public Employment; Hawaii Labor Relations Board; Deadlines for Decisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to JDL, WAM. [HB151 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB151-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  860

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 151

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 151, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that labor complaints are resolved in a timely manner by setting a time frame within which the Hawaii Labor Relations Board shall resolve complaints.

 

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association, IMUAlliance, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Office of Collective Bargaining; Department of Budget and Finance; Department of Education; and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO opposed this measure.  The Hawaii Labor Relations Board provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 151, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair