Bill Text: HI SB2326 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Contractors; Employee Wages

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [SB2326 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2326-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2094

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2326

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2326 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAGES, HOURS, AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYEES OF CONTRACTORS PERFORMING SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require that service contracts with governmental agencies that are in excess of $25,000 compensate employees at a rate that is not less than the wages paid to public officers and employees for similar work performed in the State of Hawaii.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by three private organizations.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that some ambiguity currently exists on private contracts with governmental agencies regarding the rate of compensation.  Your Committee also finds that by requiring service contracts with governmental agencies exceeding $25,000 to provide compensation not less than the wages paid to public officers and employees for similar work performed in the State of Hawaii will provide clarity to the issue of compensation for applicable service contracts.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2326 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair