Bill Text: HI SB1057 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Collective Bargaining Units (9) and (10); Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund; Employer Contributions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-30 - Recommitted to Conference committee as amended in CD 1 with none voting no and none excused. [SB1057 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1057-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 592

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1057

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYER UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND CONTRIBUTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to fulfill the Legislature's responsibility to establish public employer contribution amounts to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund if an impasse occurs in a collective bargaining negotiation.

 

     Specifically, the measure establishes employer contribution amounts for plan years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 for Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) health benefit plan premiums for the employees of collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

Your Committee finds that the public employer and the exclusive representative for collective bargaining unit (10) were at an impasse in collective bargaining negotiations regarding contribution amounts for plan years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 for EUTF health benefit plan premiums for the employees of collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts.  Because an agreement could not be reached regarding the employer contribution amounts to the trust fund, the public employer is required by law to submit its recommendation for contributions to the Legislature.  This measure establishes the public employer's recommended contributions designed to effectuate fifty percent employer contribution levels for collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts.  These rates are identical for employees in other collective bargaining units under existing collective bargaining agreements.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the excluded state officers and employees to which the measure refers are those state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining and who belong to the same compensation plans as those state officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (10); and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 1057, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair