Bill Text: HI SB1065 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Electricians.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-30 - Carried over to 2018 Regular Session. [SB1065 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-SB1065-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1065

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to electricians.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 448E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§448E-5  Minimum requirements.  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), an applicant shall possess the following minimum qualifications:

     (1)  Journey worker electrician:  To be eligible for the journey worker electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of experience in residential or commercial wiring of at least five years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than ten thousand hours, in the trade under the supervision of a journey worker or supervising electrician;

     (2)  Journey worker specialty electrician:  To be eligible for the journey worker specialty electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of at least five years' experience in the trade;

     (3)  Supervising electrician:  To be eligible for the supervising electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker electrician for at least a period of four years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade[;] and shall provide to the board satisfactory evidence of completed training on the most recent edition of the National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 70E:  Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace;

     (4)  Supervising specialty electrician:  To be eligible for the supervising specialty electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker specialty electrician for at least a period of four years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade;

     (5)  Journey worker plumber:  To be eligible for the journey worker plumber examination, an applicant shall provide satisfactory evidence of experience of at least five years' full-time or its equivalent, but not less than ten thousand hours, as a journey worker's or master plumber's helper;

     (6)  Master plumber:  To be eligible for the master plumber examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker plumber for at least two years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade;

     (7)  Maintenance electrician:  To be eligible for the maintenance electrician examination, an applicant shall be not less than eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of at least one year of experience in performing electrical maintenance work or two years of schooling in the electrical trade;

     (8)  Journey worker industrial electrician:  To be eligible for the journey worker industrial electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of experience in industrial electrical work of at least five years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than ten thousand hours;

     (9)  Supervising industrial electrician:  To be eligible for the supervising industrial electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker industrial electrician for a period of at least four years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade.

     (b)  Effective July 1, 2013, an applicant for licensing pursuant to this chapter shall possess the following minimum qualifications:

     (1)  Journey worker electrician:  To be eligible for the journey worker electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  Experience in residential or commercial wiring of at least five years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than ten thousand hours, in the trade under the supervision of a journey worker or supervising electrician; and

         (B)  Satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college offering an appropriate program of study, of two hundred forty hours of electrical academic coursework;

     (2)  Journey worker specialty electrician:  To be eligible for the journey worker specialty electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  Experience of at least three years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than six thousand hours, in the trade under the supervision of a journey worker electrician, supervising electrician, journey worker specialty electrician, or supervising specialty electrician; and

         (B)  Satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college offering an appropriate program of study, of one hundred twenty hours of electrical academic coursework;

     (3)  Supervising electrician:  To be eligible for the supervising electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker electrician for at least a period of four years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade[;] and shall provide to the board satisfactory evidence of completed training on the most recent edition of the National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 70E:  Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace;

     (4)  Supervising specialty electrician:  To be eligible for the supervising specialty electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker specialty electrician for at least a period of two years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade;

     (5)  Journey worker plumber:  To be eligible for the journey worker plumber examination, an applicant shall provide satisfactory evidence of experience of at least five years' full-time or its equivalent, but not less than ten thousand hours, as a journey worker's or master plumber's helper;

     (6)  Master plumber:  To be eligible for the master plumber examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker plumber for at least two years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade;

     (7)  Maintenance electrician:  To be eligible for the maintenance electrician examination, an applicant shall be not less than eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  At least one year of experience in performing electrical maintenance work plus satisfactory completion, accepted by a University of Hawaii community college offering an appropriate program of study, of at least eighty hours of electrical academic coursework; or

         (B)  Two years of schooling in the electrical trade with not less than one thousand hours of hands-on lab exercises;

     (8)  Journey worker industrial electrician:  To be eligible for the journey worker industrial electrician examination, an applicant shall be at least eighteen years of age and shall provide satisfactory evidence of:

         (A)  Experience in industrial electrical work of at least four years full-time or its equivalent, but not less than eight thousand hours; and

         (B)  Satisfactory completion, as accepted by a University of Hawaii community college offering an appropriate program of study, of two hundred hours of electrical academic coursework; and

     (9)  Supervising industrial electrician:  To be eligible for the supervising industrial electrician examination, an applicant shall have been registered with the board as a journey worker industrial electrician for a period of at least three years or shall have equivalent experience in the trade."

     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:

Electricians; Supervising Electricians; Safety Training; Licensure

 

Description:

Requires supervising electricians, as a condition of licensure, to submit satisfactory evidence of completed training on the most recent edition of the National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 70E:  Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.

 

 

 

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