STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1547

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 863

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 863, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure 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.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Hawaii Carpenters Union and the Hawaii State Teachers Association.  Opposing testimony was received from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 863, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair