STAND. COM. REP. NO.  104-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2457

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2457 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an earned credit certificate for public works contractors utilizing employees that meet certain apprenticeship requirements.  Among other things, this measure:

     (1)  Establishes record-keeping requirements and bid preferences for earned credit certificate holders; and

     (2)  Sets sealed bid disclosure requirements for public works contractors that are parties to apprenticeship agreements.

The Department of Budget and Fiscal Services of the City and County of Honolulu and the General Contractors Association of Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Accounting and General Services provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2091, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2457, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2457, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair