STAND. COM. REP. NO. 970

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1676

       H.D. 1

       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 Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require that for projects financed by special purposes revenue bonds, when a project party that has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor union for the project party's workforce submits that collective bargaining agreement to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations, the terms of that collective bargaining agreement shall determine the prevailing wages and terms for work on the project performed by the project party's workforce.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides important clarifications to the means of determining compliance with Hawaii's prevailing wage law for certain projects.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1676, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair