Bill Text: HI SB2671 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Collective Bargaining; Hawaii Labor Relations Board

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-24 - (S) Act 049, 4/23/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1149). [SB2671 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2671-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1679-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2671

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2671, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Hawaii Labor Relations Board can appoint attorneys, paralegals, and other personnel to provide necessary services; and

 

     (2)  Authorizing an attorney employed by the Hawaii Labor Relations Board on a part-time or contract basis to represent the Board in litigation, draft legal documents, and perform other necessary legal services.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Hawaii Government Employees Association testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2671, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair