STAND. COM. REP. NO.  380

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1138

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1138 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYEES OF HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Legislature to appropriate monies to fund pay raises for public employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; provided that the pay raises are agreed to through a collective bargaining or arbitration process.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation is bound by the public sector union collective bargaining pay increases that are negotiated by the State or awarded through arbitration.  Salaries and benefits expenses comprise approximately eighty percent of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation's total operating expenses, and collective bargaining pay raises, therefore, represent a significant cost burden that Hawaii Health Systems Corporation's facilities are ill-equipped to absorb.  This measure will help the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation pay for these costs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1138, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1138, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Government Operations,

 

 

 

 

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SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair