Bill Text: HI SB2324 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-13 - (S) Act 110, 6/8/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1212). [SB2324 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2324-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2793

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2324

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2324 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide a vehicle to fund pending public sector collective bargaining agreements for bargaining units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 13.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Hawaii Government Employees Association.  Written comments on the measure were submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

Your Committee finds that the "favored nation" clause in the Hawaii Government Employees Association collective bargaining agreement authorizes the union to renegotiate the terms of an agreement if another public union settles on terms that are more favorable.  As a result, there may be a need to appropriate funds if the terms of the Hawaii State Teachers Association and the United Public Workers collective bargaining agreements are found to be more favorable.  This measure will serve as a vehicle for funds to be appropriated.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2324, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2324, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair