STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1485

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 512

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 512, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a limited exemption from contractor licensing requirements for certain individuals qualified to work with high voltage (six hundred volts or higher), who are not licensed in the State but are otherwise deemed qualified by and contracted with an electric utility regulated by the Public Utilities Commission.

The Board of Electricians and Plumbers, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, and Maui Electric Company provided testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that the exemption from the licensing requirements of chapter 448E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, applies to employees of an electrical contractor duly licensed in the State; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 512, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 512, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair