S.B. 3076 - Summary

• Establishes a new chapter in Hawaii Revised Statutes creating collective bargaining rights for independent direct support providers who provide home and community-based services to service recipients.

• Grants independent direct support providers the right to organize, form labor organizations, bargain collectively through an exclusive representative, and pursue grievances through established procedures.

• Limits mandatory subjects of bargaining to compensation rates, benefits, professional development, dues collection, grievance procedures, and job referral access, with specific exclusions noted.

• Establishes the Hawaii Labor Relations Board as the authority to conduct representation elections by mail ballot, oversee a statewide bargaining unit, and enforce provisions through mediation, fact-finding, and last-best-offer selection processes.

• Specifies that independent direct support providers remain ineligible for participation in the employees' retirement system or health benefits trust fund, and maintains service recipients' rights to hire, direct, and discontinue provider employment.

• Effective date: July 1, 2050.