CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 34

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2015

 

RE:    H.B. No. 391

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir and Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 391, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend Hawaii's prevailing wage law to ensure that laborers and mechanics working on public works projects receive fair wages.  Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Allows overtime compensation to exceed time and one-half and specifies that if the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations determines that a prevailing wage is defined by collective bargaining, overtime will be at rates set by the applicable collective bargaining agreement; and

 

     (2)  Specifies that overtime compensation and other premium pay rates are those rates specified by an applicable collective bargaining agreement when the basic hourly rate is established by a collective bargaining agreement.

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Including a savings clause to preserve any rights and duties that have matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before the effective date of this measure; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2015.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 391, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 391, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

____________________________

GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN,

Chair

 

____________________________

MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Co-Chair

 

____________________________

JILL N. TOKUDA, Co-Chair

 

 

____________________________

JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE,

Co-Chair