STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1161

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 760

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

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. 760, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A LIVING WAGE FOR WORKERS ON SERVICE CONTRACTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that workers providing services under state-funded service contracts are paid at least a wage that provides an annual income equivalent to the most current annual federal poverty guideline for Hawaii for a family of four.  This measure also requires that contracts subject to the wage requirements contain certain provisions allowing the organizing of employees.

 

     The ILWU Local 142 testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, 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. 760, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 760, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair