STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1187-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: S.B. No. 2724
S.D. 2
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 S.B. No. 2724, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Includes construction projects on public lands, regardless of whether the work is paid from public funds, and projects for which public lands are used as security for financing in public works projects subject to the wage and hour requirements of chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(2) Exempts certain housing-related projects undertaken by a private lessee or for farm dwellings;
(3) Includes projects undertaken by private lessees in existing requirements for projects not directly caused by a government agency;
(4) Allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to terminate a contract for violation of prevailing wage and hour requirements; and
(5) Appropriates funds for the enforcement of chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including enforcement of the additional requirements contained in this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Limiting the exemption for projects involving the development, construction, renovation, or maintenance of family dwellings to single family dwellings;
(2) Changing its effective dates to July 1, 2091; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 S.B. No. 2724, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2724, S.D. 2, 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 |
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