Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 3074 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the success and growth of Hawaii's construction industry by establishing a task force to study the feasibility of establishing a Hawaii construction authority.

The Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Subcontractors Association of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure. Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., submitted testimony in opposition to this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations offered comments on this measure.

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 H.B. No. 3074 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.