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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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 103-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2323

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for collective bargaining cost items in the agreement negotiated with the exclusive bargaining representative for registered professional nurses under bargaining unit 9 and state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining but belonging to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within bargaining unit 9.

 

     Your Committee on Conference finds that the Hawaii Government Employees Association and the Department of Education have reached an understanding relating to "favored nations" provisions in agreements concerning bargaining units 2, 3, 4, 6, and 13.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by deleting its contents and adopting the language submitted by the Governor in Governor's Message No. 240 to:

 

     (1)  Appropriate funds necessary for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 to satisfy the salary increases and other cost adjustments relating to the "favored nations" provisions in the supplemental agreements negotiated between the Department of Education and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining units 2, 3, 4, 6, and 13 for employees of the Department of Education, including the Hawaii State Public Library System, and their excluded counterparts;

 

     (2)  Appropriate funds to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund (EUTF) necessary for fiscal biennium 2012-2013 to fund the EUTF costs contained in the supplemental agreements negotiated between the Department of Education and the exclusive bargaining representative of collective bargaining unit 6 as well as state officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining who belong to the same compensation plans as those officers and employees of collective bargaining unit 6; and

 

     (3)  Make this measure apply retroactively to July 1, 2011.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair
____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Co-Chair		____________________________ MICHELLE KIDANI, Co-Chair