Report Title:

Contractors

Description:

Changes the composition of the contractors license board to include 15 members, 5 each from the building trades and crafts, the contractors, and the professional engineers.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1341

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE CONTRACTORS LICENSE BOARD.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 444-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§444-3 Contractors license board. (a) There shall be a contractors license board of [thirteen] fifteen members.

(b) Of the board members:

(1) Ten shall be contractors who have been actively engaged in the contracting business for a period of not less than five years preceding the date of their appointment;

(2) Five shall be general engineering or building contractors[, five shall be] or specialty contractors[, and three shall be noncontractors.];

(3) Five shall be professional engineers; and

(4) Five shall be practitioners from building trades or crafts.

No member shall receive any compensation for the member's services, but each shall be reimbursed for necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of duties.

(c) Each county shall be represented on the board.

(d) No one, except the [three noncontractor members,] five members from the trades and crafts, shall be eligible for appointment who does not at the time of the member's appointment hold a valid and unexpired license to operate as a contractor."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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