Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2913 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that at least half of all electrical and plumbing workers employed at a construction job site by an electrical or plumbing contractor shall be licensed in accordance with Chapter 448E, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 1186. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Contractors License Board and Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Hawaii Chapter. Comments were submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

Your Committee finds that this measure, as it relates to one-to-one supervision of electrical and plumbing workers at a job site where there is electrical and plumbing work occurring, serves to protect the general public and the workers completing the work. As recommended by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, your Committee has amended this measure with language that maintains this intent that when workers are doing electrical or plumbing work, there is a corresponding licensed electrician or plumber on the project.

Your Committee also finds that this measure requires further discussion. Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2913, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2913, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.