STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1326
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 861
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2007
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 861, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to require that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations be the responsible agency for ensuring compliance with Hawaii's prevailing wage law for public work projects not directly caused by a governmental contracting agency and require the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for these projects be reported to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1186 and from the Hawaii State AFL-CIO. Testimony in opposition to the bill was received from Hawaiian Electric Company and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Your Committee amended the bill where a project party enters into a project agreement involving special purpose revenue bonds and the project party has a collective bargaining agreement with a bona fide labor union, the terms of the collective bargaining agreement and associated provisions shall be deemed the prevailing wages. Your Committee also made some technical non-substantive amendments.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 861, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 861, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,
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____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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