STAND. COM. REP. NO.  686-16

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2472, H.D. 1, 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 Hawaii State AFL-CIO, Hawaii Construction Alliance, Pacific Resource Partnership, and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and General Contractors Association of Hawaii provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2472, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair