STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2678

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2916

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2916 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTRACTORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs investigators to issue cease and desist citations to persons conducting activities without the proper licenses, rather than just permit such issuance.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Iron Workers Stabilization Fund and the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers (Ironworkers Local 625). Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Contractors License Board.

Your Committee finds that this measure will reduce unlicensed construction in Hawaii by prohibiting an unlicensed contractor or subcontractor from continuing work without the proper licenses. To ensure further discussion on this measure, your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2916, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2916, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing,

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RON MENOR, Chair