STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1594
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 935
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 935, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to expand the scope of public work projects that must meet employee wages and hours requirements under chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS). Specifically, this bill:
(1) Removes the requirement that a public work project must involve a governmental contracting agency to be subject to chapter 104, HRS;
(2) Repeals the definition of a "governmental contracting agency"; and
(3) Clarifies the definition of a "public work" to include any project financed by special purpose revenue bonds.
The Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1186, testified in support of this bill. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and the Building Industry Association of Hawaii opposed this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by restoring:
(1) The requirement that a public work project must involve a governmental contracting agency to be subject to chapter 104, HRS; and
(2) The definition of a "governmental contracting agency".
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 S.B. No. 935, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 935, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair |
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