STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2445

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3076

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3076 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS OF INDEPENDENT DIRECT SUPPORT PROVIDERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to enable independent direct support providers to engage in limited collective bargaining with the State.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Collective Bargaining and one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Labor Relations Board.

     Your Committees find that this measure recognizes independent direct support providers' right to organize and establishes the framework for independent direct support providers to unionize.  Your Committees received testimony from the Hawaii Labor Relations Board expressing that the Board would need additional resources to carry out this measure.  Specifically, the Board indicated that it would need an additional attorney and paralegal and an appropriation to fund transcripts, witness fees, and mileage fees.  Your Committees find that this concern regarding resources merits further consideration as this measure moves through the legislative process.

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3076, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3076, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Judiciary and Labor,

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair