STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3700

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1917

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1917, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys for collective bargaining cost items for Judiciary employees who are members of a collective bargaining unit and for their excluded counterparts.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Judiciary; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the exclusive representative of various collective bargaining units has been pursuing temporary hazard pay for work performed by government employees during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Your Committee further finds that this measure provides a vehicle to appropriate moneys for the temporary hazard pay of the Judiciary employees who are members of those collective bargaining units and for their excluded counterparts.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1917, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair