HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2921

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO LICENSING.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 448E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§448E-5  Minimum requirements.  An applicant for licensing pursuant to this chapter shall possess the following minimum qualifications:

     (1)  Journey worker electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the journey worker electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of [experience]:

         (A)  Experience in residential or commercial wiring of at least five years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than [10,000] ten thousand hours [of experience], in the trade under the supervision of a journey worker or supervising electrician[.]; and

         (B)  Satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college, of two hundred forty hours of electrical academic coursework;

     (2)  Journey worker specialty electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the journey worker specialty electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall [have had at least five years' experience in the trade.] provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  Experience of at least three years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than six thousand hours, in the trade under the supervision of a journey worker electrician, supervising electrician, journey worker specialty electrician, or supervising specialty electrician; and

         (B)  Satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college, of one hundred twenty hours of electrical academic coursework;

     (3)  Supervising electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the supervising electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker electrician for at least a period of four years [in the trade] or shall have [had] equivalent experience in the trade[.];

     (4)  Supervising specialty electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the supervising specialty electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker specialty electrician for at least a period of [four] two years [in the trade] or shall have [had] equivalent experience in the trade[.];

     (5)  Journey worker plumber.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the journey worker plumber examination, an applicant shall [have had] provide satisfactory evidence of experience of at least five years' full-time or its equivalent, but not less than [10,000] ten thousand hours, as a journey worker's or master plumber's helper[, and is able to furnish satisfactory evidence of such fact.];

     (6)  Master plumber.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the master plumber examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker plumber for at least two years or shall have [had] equivalent experience in the trade[.];

     (7)  Maintenance electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the maintenance electrician examination, an applicant shall be not less than eighteen years of age and shall [have had at] provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  At least one year of experience in performing electrical maintenance work plus satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college, of at least eighty hours of electrical academic coursework; or [proof of two]

         (B)  Two years of schooling in the electrical trade[.] with not less than one thousand hours of hands-on lab exercises;

     (8)  Journey worker industrial electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the journey worker industrial electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall [have had experience] provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  Experience in industrial electrical work of at least [five] four years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than [10,000] eight thousand hours[.]; and

         (B)  Satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college, of two hundred hours of electrical academic coursework; and

     (9)  Supervising industrial electrician.  [Every applicant to] To be eligible for the supervising industrial electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker industrial electrician for a period of at least [four] three years or shall have [had] equivalent experience in the trade."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.



 

 

 

Report Title:

Electricians; Licensure

 

Description:

Revises the minimum requirements for licensure of electricians. Effective July 1, 2015.  (HB2921 HD2)

 

 

 

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