STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2487

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2837

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2837 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LICENSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to revise minimum electrician and plumber licensure requirements.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Electricians Training Fund.  Your Committee received testimony commenting on this measure from the Board of Electricians and Plumbers and the University of Hawaii Community Colleges.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure alters the minimum requirements for obtaining plumbers' or electricians' licenses by requiring journey worker, journey worker specialty, maintenance, and journey worker industrial electricians by requiring applicants for licensure under these categories to complete minimum academic coursework requirements.  Your Committee further finds that this measure helps to ensure an adequate number of supervising specialty, journey worker specialty, journey worker industrial, and supervising industrial electricians in the State by reducing the previous experience requirements.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making the new minimum qualification licensing requirements effective July 1, 2013 and maintaining the current regime until that time; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2837, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2837, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair