STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2760

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3039

       S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 3039, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for two additional labor law enforcement specialist IV positions to assist in the enforcement of Hawaii's wage and hour law on public construction projects.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, The Pacific Resource Partnership, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Building Industry Association, and Hawaii Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Transportation submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Wage Standards Division is severely understaffed, making it difficult for the Department to keep pace with the increasing demands of enforcing the wage and hour law.  The addition of these staff positions will give the Department the proper resources to complete investigations and enforce prevailing wage and hour laws on public construction projects.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure

     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 S.B. No. 3039, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3039, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair