STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 791-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2692

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2692 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that parties involved in public work projects, not directly caused by a governmental contracting agency, comply with Hawaii's wage and hour laws by:

(1) Making it the responsibility of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to ensure that parties involved in public work projects, not directly caused by a governmental contracting agency, comply with the state wage and hour law;

(2) Requiring that any issuance of special purpose revenue bonds (SPRBs) be promptly reported to DLIR to allow DLIR to carry out its duties of ensuring that projects financed through SPRBs comply with the state wage and hour law; and

(3) Clarifying that a violation of the public works law refers to each project in which DLIR finds a violation rather than to each investigation.

The Hawaii State AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1186, and Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council AFL-CIO testified in support of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Hawaii Chapter, and Willocks Construction Corporation opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2692, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2692, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

		____________________________ DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair