Report Title:

Public Works; Special Purpose Revenue Bonds; Prevailing Wages

 

Description:

Requires that the collective bargaining agreement be submitted to the director of labor and industrial relations in order for the terms in the agreement to dictate the prevailing wages with regard to a project financed through the issuance of a special purpose revenue bond.  Effective 07/01/2009.  (HB1676 CD1)


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1676

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 2

 

C.D. 1

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 104-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (h) to read as follows:

     "(h)  When [the]:

     (1)  The department of budget and finance enters a project agreement with a project party, as those terms are defined in chapter 39A, to finance or refinance a project with the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds[, and such];

     (2)  The project party has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a bona fide labor union governing the project party's workforce[,]; and

     (3)  The collective bargaining agreement has been properly submitted to the director under section 104-34,

the terms of [that] the collective bargaining agreement and associated provisions shall be deemed the prevailing wages and terms serving as the basis of compliance with this [section] chapter for work on the project by the project party's workforce[,]; provided[, however,] that this subsection does not affect the director's enforcement powers contained in subsection (g)."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.