Bill Text: HI HB1527 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Contractors License Board; Membership

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-15 - Referred to CPC, referral sheet 1 [HB1527 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-HB1527-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1527

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to the contractors license board.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 444-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by:

     1.  Amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There shall be a contractors license board of [thirteen] fifteen members.

     (b)  Of the board members:

     (1)  [Ten] Twelve shall be contractors who have been actively engaged in the contracting business for a period of not less than five years preceding the date of their appointment;

     (2)  [Five] Of the twelve contractors required under paragraph (1), five shall be general engineering or building contractors, [five] and seven shall be specialty contractors[,];

     (3)  One shall be affiliated with a state certified apprenticeship program under chapter 372; and

     (4)  [three] Two shall be noncontractors.

No member shall receive any compensation for the member's services, but each shall be reimbursed for necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of duties."

     2.  Amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

     "(d)  No [one,] person, except the [three] two noncontractor members, shall be eligible for appointment to the board who does not at the time of the member's appointment hold a valid and unexpired license to operate as a contractor."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Contractors License Board; Membership

 

Description:

Increases the membership of the contractors license board from 13 to 15.  Increases from 10 to 12 the members who are actively engaged in the contracting business.  Increases from 5 to 7 the members who are specialty contractors.  Requires that 1 member be affiliated with a state apprenticeship program.  Decreases from 3 to 2 the members who are noncontractors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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