STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1418

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1214

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1214, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide for the manner in which prevailing wages for laborers and mechanics on public work projects are to be established.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Carpenters Union. Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Department of Accounting and General Services, the Department of Taxation, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the Building Industry Association of Hawaii, the Vice President of Jas. W. Glover Ltd., the President of Willocks Construction Corporation, and the President of Kiyosaki Tractor Works, Inc.

This measure extends the prevailing wages law to include public works projects subsidized by tax credits or tax exemptions issued by the State or counties or that involve the lease of state or county lands. This measure also requires the certification and submission of payrolls by entities claiming a state tax credit or leasing the state or county lands.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making technical, non-substantive amendments for purposes of clarity; and

(2) Making the effective date defective in order to promote continuing discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1214, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1214, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair