STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1662-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2779

      H.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2779, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the type of circumstances under which the Governor, by executive order, would be allowed to suspend the statutes relating to prevailing wages and hours of public works projects.

     The Department of Accounting and General Services testified in opposition to this bill.  The Hawaii Carpenters Union and Laborers' Union Local 368 offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Specifying the statutory provisions under which the Governor may suspend the statutes relating to prevailing wages and hours of public works projects;

     (2)  Deleting the requirement that the Governor's emergency proclamation contain the reference to the statute under which the emergency is being declared; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date to upon its approval.

     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 S.B. No. 2779, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2779, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair