STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1166-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2297

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 S.B. No. 2297 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 Act 65, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, from 2018 to 2023, which will extend the limited exemption to electrician licensing requirements for certain individuals who are not licensed in the State but are otherwise deemed qualified by the electric utility and who are contracted by an electric utility to work with high voltage (600 volts or higher).

The Board of Electricians and Plumbers; Hawaii Emergency Management Agency; The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc.; Maui Electric Company, Limited; and POWER Contracting LLC supported this measure. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1186 opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate 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 S.B. No. 2297, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2297, 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