Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2786 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to administratively attach the Hoisting Machine Operators Advisory Board (Board) to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and to authorize the Board to hire a half-time executive director.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Hoisting Machine Operators Advisory Board.

Your Committee finds that section 6 of Article V of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii requires that an advisory board be administratively attached to a principal department. Since the Board is not administratively attached to any department of the State, any decisions or actions of the Board could be held as invalid.

Your Committee also finds that the Board is in need of an executive director to schedule meetings, receive and review certification applications, disseminate application materials, and to perform a variety of ministerial functions to support the Board's actions.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2786, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2786, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.