Report Title:

Contractors

Description:

Modifies the composition of the contractors license board.  Requires at least 3 members of the contractors license board to be appointed from a list of nominees submitted from the speaker of the house of representatives and at least 3 from a list submitted by the president of the senate.  (HB966 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	966
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CONTRACTORS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 444-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§444-3  Contractors license board.  (a)  There shall be a contractors license board of thirteen members.

     (b)  Of the board members:

     (1)  Ten shall be contractors who have been actively engaged in the contracting business for a period of not less than five years preceding the date of their appointment;

     (2)  Five shall be general engineering or building contractors, five shall be specialty contractors, and three shall be noncontractors.  No member shall receive any compensation for the member's services, but each shall be reimbursed for necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of duties[.]; and

(3) At least three shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the speaker of the house of representatives, and at least three shall be appointed from a list of nominees submitted by the president of the senate.

     (c)  Each county shall be represented on the board.

     (d)  No one, except the three noncontractor members, shall be eligible for appointment who does not at the time of the member's appointment hold a valid and unexpired license to operate as a contractor."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2020.