CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 20

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2009

RE:    H.B. No. 1676

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir and Madam:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify Hawaii's prevailing wage law and ensure payment of prevailing wages on projects financed with special purpose revenue bonds (SPRBs) by requiring project parties to submit a collective bargaining agreement to the Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations which will serve as the basis for compliance with all applicable prevailing wage requirements.

     Currently, public works projects require the payment of prevailing wages.  In 2007, the Legislature enacted Act 61 which specified that projects funded by SPRBs were considered public works and, therefore, subject to Hawaii's prevailing wage law.  Since some companies that finance projects with SPRBs also use their own unionized employees on the particular project, allowing for the properly submitted collective bargaining agreement to serve as the basis for compliance with Hawaii's prevailing wage law appears reasonable.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2009.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair	____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair
____________________________ SHAN S. TSUTSUI, Co-Chair	____________________________ KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Co-Chair