STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3401

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2413

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2413, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to include public-private partnerships under Hawaii's prevailing wage law for public construction work, by amending the definition of "governmental contracting agency".

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization Fund, the Hawaii Construction Alliance, Laborers Union Local 368, the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, and the Hawaii Iron Workers Stabilization Fund.

     Your Committee finds that existing law does not specifically address whether public-private construction projects should be subject to the State's prevailing wage law for public works projects because the existing definition of "governmental contracting agency" under chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, does not specifically include public-private partnerships.  Your Committee believes that if government resources are used in a public-private partnership, the prevailing wage law for public works projects should apply.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2413, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair