STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1218-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3038

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 3038 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update procedures of the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to:

     (1)  Clarify that the Governor shall first consider persons included on a list of names submitted by public employee representative organizations when appointing an acting member to temporarily replace a regular member of the Board who represents labor; and

     (2)  Permit electronic service of hearing notices through a company designated by the Board.

The Hawaii Labor Relations Board provided testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3038 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair