STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1264

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 962

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 962, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Provide for the manner in which the prevailing wages for

laborers and mechanics on public work projects is to be established;

(2) Allow all individuals to bring suit for injunctive

relief for violations of chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

The Hawaii Carpenters Union supported this bill. The Attorney General, Department to Accounting and General Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Building Industry Association-Hawaii, and Hidano Construction, Inc., opposed this bill.

 

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Expanding the definition of "public work" to include

under what circumstances the use of public funding for a project would qualify that project as public work;

(2) Repealing the provision allowing all individuals to

bring suit for injunctive relief for violations of chapter 104, HRS; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,

consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 962, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 962, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment,

 

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KIRK CALDWELL, Chair

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair