STAND. COM. REP. 2180

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2032

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2032 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the state law requiring payment of prevailing wages applies to all laborers, mechanics, required assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices on a public works project, and not only those on the job site.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization Fund.

Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Department of Accounting and General Services, the General Contractors Association of Hawaii, and Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.

Your Committees find that the State must strive towards perpetuating a sense of equity in the governance of public works projects. Under prevailing standards, required assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices should be receiving payment of prevailing wages to ensure uniformity in the execution of public works projects. Your Committees determine that the establishment of clear standards in the law will provide equally patent guidelines for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to follow in its enforcement of prevailing standards.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2032, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2032, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair