STAND. COM. REP. NO. 90-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1917

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1917 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for collective bargaining cost items for Judiciary employees and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary and United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee finds that unions representing public employees in the State have been pursuing claims for temporary hazard pay for work performed by government employees during the COVID-19 pandemic pursuant to the hazard pay provisions of the respective collective bargaining agreements. This measure is intended to provide appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for temporary hazard pay for employees in bargaining units 1 and 10 and their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $1,097,301 for bargaining unit 1 and its excluded counterparts; and $612,621 for bargaining unit 10 and its excluded counterparts.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1917, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1917, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair