A bill to provide more effective means for protecting the public interest, health, and well being of the people of the State of Hawaii during strikes, lockouts, or other forms of labor strife or discord in either the maritime or longshore industry, or both industries, which obstruct or close the major seaports of the west coast of the United States, thereby disrupting the normal flow of maritime interstate commerce by means of surface water transportation both to and from the State of Hawaii.
Hawaii Public Interest Protection Act - States that when the State of Hawaii confronts a shipping strike on other labor-management dispute disrupting the free flow of maritime interstate commerce between Hawaii and the West Coast, such disruption shall be recognized as automatically and inevitably constituting an emergency deterimental to the public interest, health, and safety of the people of Hawaii.
Declares to be the purpose and policy of this Act to assure as far as possible that no maritime as longshore industry disruption will hereafter imperil the health or safety of the people of the State of Hawaii by establishing means whereby vessels destined for Hawaii from west coast ports can continue for sixty days after the initiation of a strike, lockout, as other form of industry disruption which threatens the health on safety of the people of the State of Hawaii.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce.
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