STAND. COM. REP. NO.  534

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 713

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 713, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTRACTORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure compliance with Hawaii's Wage and Hours of Employees on Public Works law by:

     (1)  Authorizing the Department Labor and Industrial Relations (Department) to train and deputize volunteer investigators for public works projects;

     (2)  Requiring the Department to submit status reports to the Legislature; and

     (3)  Appropriating funds for the training and deputizing of volunteer investigators investigating in public work projects.

The Subcontractors Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Hawaii Construction Alliance, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Building Industry Association of Hawaii and Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization Fund provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to effectuate the purposes of this measure; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 713, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 713, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair