STAND. COM. REP. NO.  22-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.B. No. 1880

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1880 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the sunset date of the limited exemption from licensing requirements for electrical contractors who are retained by a public utility within the State to perform high voltage (600 volts or higher) electrical work and who are deemed qualified by the electric utility.

The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; Building Industry Association of Hawaii; and POWER Contracting LLC testified in support of this measure.  The Electrical Contractors Association of Hawaii opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this measure.

     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. 1880, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1880, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Intrastate Commerce.

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

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair