Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1778, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend wage benefits to all laborers and mechanics working on government construction projects.

This measure would further authorize an employer, with the consent of an employee, to furnish an electronic record of the employee's total gross compensation, the amount and purpose of any deduction, total net compensation, date of payment, and pay period covered, in lieu of a printed, typewritten, or handwritten record.

Your Committee finds that, under present law, all laborers and mechanics working onsite at a government construction project are entitled to prevailing wages, as determined by the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. This measure would extend that wage benefit to the assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices of those laborers and mechanics, whether working on or off the job site.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to facilitate further discussion on this matter.

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. 1778, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1778, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.