STAND. COM. REP. NO.  978-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3030

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 3030 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the type of circumstances that allows the Governor, by executive order, to suspend the statutes relating to prevailing wages and hours on public works projects.

     The Hawaii Carpenters Union testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations opposed this measure.

     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. 3030 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair