STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1613-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2780

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

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. 2780, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to further clarify requirements for the payment of prevailing wages on public works projects by including, as a public work, construction contracts valued at $500,000 or more between private persons using state or county land for commercial, profit-making activity.

     The Laborers' Union Local 368 and Hawaii Carpenters Union testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure.

     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. 2780, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, 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