Bill Text: HI SB1080 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Collective Bargaining.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [SB1080 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-SB1080-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1080

THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to collective bargaining.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 89-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The board shall be composed of three members of which [(1)] one member shall be representative of management, [(2)] one member shall be representative of labor, and [(3)] the third member, the chairperson, shall be representative of the public.  All members shall be appointed for terms of six years each in accordance with the following procedures:

     (1)  The representative of management shall be appointed by the governor, who may first consider any names submitted by the counties; provided that each county may submit no more than one name;

     (2)  The representative of labor shall be a person who is appointed by the governor [from a list of three nominees submitted by mutual agreement from a majority of the exclusive representatives;] and whose name has been submitted to the governor to serve as the representative of labor by the exclusive representatives certified pursuant to section 89-8.  The process to determine the nominee whose name is to be submitted to the governor shall be determined by a simple majority of the exclusive representatives certified pursuant to section 89-8.  The governor shall transmit the name of the person nominated to serve as the representative of labor to the senate for advice and consent not later than twenty days after submission of the nominee's name to the governor; provided that, if the governor fails to nominate the person whose name has been submitted by a simple majority of exclusive representatives in accordance with this paragraph, the simple majority of exclusive representatives who recommended the person shall transmit the person's name directly to the senate for confirmation; and

     (3)  The representative of the public shall be appointed by the governor."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Collective Bargaining; HLRB; Labor

 

Description:

Establishes that the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board be a person selected by a majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units.

 

 

 

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