STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1343

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1479

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1479, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require that every contract for a public works project, to which a government contracting agency is a party, include in the contract a provision that a certified copy of a fringe benefit reporting form is to be submitted weekly to the governmental contracting agency for review.

     Your Committee finds that the current reporting of fringe benefits by public works project employers is inadequate, and that there should be a reasonable way for laborers to determine the itemization of their fringe benefits through public records.  Employers are currently only required to check a box indicating that they are in compliance with the payment of fringe benefit wages required under chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Hourly wages, but not fringe benefits, are listed as itemized payments to prove compliance.

     This measure remedies the situation by requiring the itemized listing of payments of fringe benefits on payroll records, thus ensuring compliance with rules regarding the payment of fringe benefits.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1479, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair