STAND. COM. REP. NO.  927

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 863

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 863 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that private construction contracts where more than half of the project will be used by the State or a county, will comply with the prevailing wage law by requiring:

 

     (1)  The project owner to certify that the project will comply with the prevailing wage law;

 

     (2)  The certification to be filed with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) and Department of Accounting and General Services; and

 

     (3)  The project owner to submit certified payrolls weekly to the governmental agency that will be using the project.

 

     The Hawaii Carpenters Union testified in support of this bill.  DLIR opposed this measure.  The County of Hawaii Office of Housing and Community Development provided comments.

 


     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 863, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 863, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair