STAND. COM. REP. NO.  752

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 952

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 952, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES AND HOURS ON PUBLIC WORKS LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate investigations of public contractor violations of wage and hour requirements by:

(1)  Providing for confidentiality with respect to the identity of complainants interviewed in investigations; and

(2)  Requiring the filing of administrative complaints of violations within one year from the date wages were due and limiting investigations to a one-year period.   

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations supported this measure and provided comments.  The Hawaii Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO and the Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization Fund opposed this measure.  The General Contractors Association of Hawaii commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the provision that would have required administrative complaints to be filed within a year and limited the investigation period.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 952, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 952, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair