Bill Text: HI SB2840 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Procurement; Construction Projects; Resident

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-30 - (S) Act 068, 4/29/2010, veto override. [SB2840 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2840-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2473

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2840

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require that residents of Hawaii make up at least eighty per cent of the labor force working on certain public works projects and construction procurement contracts.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Government Employees Association.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will level the playing field for Hawaii residents and remedy the negative effects of non-resident employment on public works projects and construction procurement contracts, while preserving contractors' flexibility to employ non-residents when necessary.  This measure is substantially related to the State's important goal of reducing unemployment.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring contractors to provide written proof of compliance with the labor force requirement, upon request from the procurement officer;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion of this measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2840, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair