STAND. COM. REP. NO.  526-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3030

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 3030 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to protect worker's rights by clarifying the circumstances under which the Governor may suspend statutes relating to wages and hours on public works projects.

     The Hawaii Carpenters Union and Laborers' Union Local 368 testified in support of this bill.  The State Department of Defense and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in opposition to this bill.

     Currently, the Governor may suspend the payment of prevailing wages on public works projects during a state of emergency.  This measure simply clarifies when the Governor may specifically suspend prevailing wages on public works projects and requires the Governor to issue a proclamation for an emergency in order to take this action.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety & Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3030 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Public Safety & Military Affairs,

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair