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. 2952, H.D. 1, 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 work projects not directly built or developed by a governmental contracting agency.

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

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. 2952, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.