Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2692, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that a separate violation occurs on each project where the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations finds a contractor has failed to comply with chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee finds that contractors who continually violate the law on multiple occasions and on multiple public work projects may be considered to have committed only one violation. This measure is necessary to prevent these contractors from circumventing the law and gaining an unfair advantage over contractors that comply with the law.

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. 2692, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.