STAND. COM. REP. NO.  366-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2413

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2413 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to apply Hawaii's prevailing wage law for public construction work projects to public-private partnerships by including public-private partnerships in the definition of a "governmental contracting agency".

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; Plumbers and Fitters UA, Local 675; Pacific Resource Partnership; Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilizing Fund; Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters; Hawaii Laborers' Union; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1186; and Hawaii Construction Alliance testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2413, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2413, H.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair