Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2952 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the enforcement of Hawaii's prevailing wage law by requiring the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to collect and maintain certified copies of payrolls for all public works projects that were not directly built or developed by a governmental contracting agency.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 1186, IBEW, Local 1260, IBEW, Local 1357, Hawaii State AFL-CIO, and Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO testified in support of this bill. DLIR, the Department of Accounting and General Services, and the Associated Builders and Contractors opposed this measure.

This bill ensures that laborers and mechanics employed on indirect public works projects will receive prevailing wages due to better enforcement by DLIR.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2952, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2952, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.