STAND. COM. REP. NO.  110-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2413

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, 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 amend the Hawaii prevailing wage law regarding public construction work projects to include public-private partnerships in the definition of a governmental contracting agency.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 1186, and The Pacific Resource Partnership provided testimony in support of this measure.  Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Hawaii Chapter, provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2413 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair