Bill Text: HI SB1065 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; State Law Enforcement Officers; BU (14)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-25 - (S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-27-12 2:00PM in conference room 325. [SB1065 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1065-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1550

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1065

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to:

 

     (1)  Create a new collective bargaining unit, Collective Bargaining Unit (14), to represent state law enforcement officers; and

 

     (2)  Prohibit the Hawaii Labor Relations Board from directing an election in a bargaining unit that has been established for less than an unspecified number of months and is composed of employees who are currently covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement.

 

     The Department of Public Safety, Hawaii State Sheriff Division, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1065, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

____________________________

MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair

 

 

 

 

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