Bill Text: HI SB163 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Nurses; Hawaii Charter Schools; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) LoPresti voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Choy, Ing, Lowen, Luke, McKelvey, Pouha excused (6). [SB163 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-SB163-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

163

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 89-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

     "(d)  For the purpose of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement, the public employer of an appropriate bargaining unit shall mean the governor together with the following employers:

     (1)  For bargaining units (1), (2), (3), (4), (9), (10), (13), and (14), the governor shall have six votes and the mayors, the chief justice, and the Hawaii health systems corporation board shall each have one vote if they have employees in the particular bargaining unit;

     (2)  For bargaining units (11) and (12), the governor shall have four votes and the mayors shall each have one vote;

     (3)  For bargaining units (5) and (6), the governor shall have [three] four votes, the board of education shall have two votes, [and] the superintendent of education shall have one vote[;] and a representative selected by the majority of all public charter schools shall have one vote; and

     (4)  For bargaining units (7) and (8), the governor shall have three votes, the board of regents of the University of Hawaii shall have two votes, and the president of the University of Hawaii shall have one vote[.]; and

     (5)  For Hawaii health systems corporation supplemental bargaining agreements for units (1), (2), (3), (4), (9), (10), and (13), the governor shall have three votes, the corporation board of directors shall have two votes, and the executive director of the Hawaii health systems corporation shall have one vote.  The supplemental agreements shall be approved concurrent with any master agreement.

Any decision to be reached by the applicable employer group shall be on the basis of simple majority, except when a bargaining unit includes county employees from more than one county.  In that case, the simple majority shall include at least one county."

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

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 7, 2059.



 

Report Title:

Collective Bargaining; Nurses; Hawaii Charter Schools; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

 

Description:

Requires, for collective bargaining for units (5) and (6), four votes for the governor, two votes for the board of education, one vote for the superintendent of education, and one vote for a representative selected by a majority of all public charter schools.  Specifies voting and requirements for HHSC supplemental bargaining agreements for units (1), (2), (3), (4), (9), (10), and (13).  (SB163 HD1)

 

 

 

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