STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1276-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.R. No. 80

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.R. No. 80 entitled:

 

"HOUSE RESOLUTION URGING THE USE OF HAWAII-BASED UNION CONTRACTORS AND WORKERS FOR STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY CONSTRUCTION OR RENOVATION PROJECTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to generate local jobs and to protect the rights of both public and contracted employees as provided by law by urging the use of Hawaii-based union contractors and workers for State correctional facility construction or renovation projects.

 

     The Subcontractors Association of Hawaii; International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 50; Painting Industry of Hawaii Labor Management Cooperation Trust Fund; Carpet Linoleum and Soft Tile Local Union 1926 Market Recovery Trust Fund; Hawaii Tapers Market Recovery Trust Fund; Hawaii Glaziers, Architectural Metal Glass Workers Local Union 1889 AFL-CIO Stabilization Fund; and Ironworkers Stabilization Fund supported this measure.  The Department of Public Safety and General Contractors Association of Hawaii offered comments on this measure.   

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance, should it consider this measure, investigate, as an alternative to the policy expressed in this measure, a policy that urges the State to use pre-qualified, experienced contractors and subcontractors who have worked on similar projects.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 80 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair