STAND. COM. REP. NO.  993-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2927

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2927 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen enforcement of Hawaii's Public Works Law by requiring the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to immediately suspend from working on any public works project for three years, any contractor who interferes with or delays an investigation or falsifies payroll records.

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Laborers' Union Local 368, Hawaii Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, Pacific Resource Partnership, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Ralph S. Inouye Co., Ltd., and HSI Mechanical, Inc., supported this bill.

     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 H.B. No. 2927 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair