STAND. COM. REP. NO. 19

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 95

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 95 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make general contractors entering into or under contracts in the State for work on projects other than public works liable for non-payment of wages by subcontractors.

The Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, Pacific Resource Partnership, Ironworkers Stabilization Fund, and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i supported this measure. The Subcontractors Association of Hawaii opposed this measure. The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 95, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 95, 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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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair