Bill Text: HI SB2798 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Contractors License; Specialty Contractor

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. [SB2798 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2798-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2239

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2798

       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 Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2798 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTRACTORS LICENSES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that a specialty contractor may execute a contract involving the use of two or more crafts or trades if the performance of the craft or trade, other than that in which the contractor holds a specialty license, constitutes less than one-half of one per cent of the total monetary value of the project.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one private organization.  Testimony in opposition 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 an objective percentage of monetary value on a project is needed to clarify what is considered to be incidental and supplemental to the total project.  Your Committee also finds that providing objective parameters for licensed specialty contractors that perform two or more crafts or trades on a project is necessary to maintain equity and fairness amongst all specialty contractors within the construction industry in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Leaving blank the maximum percentage of total monetary value that a licensed specialty contractor may receive on a project from performing work that does not involve their licensed specialty; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

 

     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. 2798, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2798, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair