Report Title:

Labor; Wages and Hours; Emergencies; Suspension

Description:

Clarifies the circumstances under which the governor may suspend statutes relating to wages and hours on public works projects.  (SB2779 HD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2779
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO LABOR.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 104-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§104-32  Suspension during emergency.  During a national emergency declared by the President or the Congress of the United States, or a state of emergency declared by the governor, the governor, by executive order in writing, may suspend this chapter[.]; provided that the governor may not suspend this chapter except in the event such an emergency occurs and is so proclaimed; provided further that the emergency proclamation shall contain the reference to the statute under which the emergency is being declared."

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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2059.