STAND. COM. REP. NO.  346-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2472

      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. 2472 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to restore positions that were cut during the reduction-in-force of 2009 by appropriating funds for five positions in the Wage Standards Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; and Hawaii Construction Alliance supported this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

     Should the Committee on Finance further deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests inserting an appropriation amount of $249,864 to reestablish and fund five positions in the Wage Standards Division that were lost in the reduction-in-force from 2009.

     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. 2472, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2472, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair