Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 671 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the functioning of the Hoisting Machine Operators Advisory Board. Specifically, this bill:

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill only from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Your Committee finds that this Department is statutorily authorized to regulate hoisting machines and certify their operators pursuant to section 396-4(a)(5), Hawaii Revised Statutes. More importantly, your Committee finds that placement of the Board within a department is a matter of constitutional necessity, as mandated by article V, section 6 of the State Constitution.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making a substantive change to its effective date, from "upon approval" to July 1, 2020 to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 671, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 671, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.