Bill Text: HI SB685 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 685 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To The Contractors License Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-24 - The committee on CPH deferred the measure. [SB685 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2017-SB685-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	685
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017
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. The legislature finds that public safety is unnecessarily put at risk given general contractors may hold seats for specialty contractor positions on the contractors license board. The purpose of this Act is to better protect the public from dishonest, fraudulent, unskilled, or otherwise unqualified contractors by ensuring that specialty contractors are not administratively kept off the contractors license board.

SECTION 2. Section 444-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§444-3 Contractors license board. (a) There shall be a contractors license board of [~~thirteen~~] fifteen members[.], each of whom shall have been a resident of and domiciled in the State for not less than five years preceding the member's appointment.

(b) Of the board members:

(1) [~~Ten~~] Eight shall be contractors who have been actively engaged in the contracting business, in the State, for a period of not less than five years preceding the date of their appointment[;] and who hold a valid and unexpired license to operate as a contractor at the time of their appointment. Two of the contractors shall be general engineering contractors, two shall be building contractors, and four shall be specialty contractors who do not hold a general engineering or general building contractor license; and

[~~(2)~~ Five shall be general engineering or building contractors, five shall be specialty contractors, and three 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) Seven shall be public members who at the time of their appointment do not hold a valid or unexpired license to operate as a contractor, are not relatives of any board member who holds a contractors license, and do not have a financial interest in the business of any board member possessing a contractors license.

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

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

(e) Any member whose license is revoked or suspended pursuant to section 444-17 shall be removed from the board.

(f) For purposes of this section:

"General engineering contractor", "general building contractor", and "specialty contractor" shall have the same meaning as in section 444-7.

"Relative" means a spouse, fianc�, fianc�e, parent, sibling, child, or anyone who is related to the person within two degrees of consanguinity; or the spouse, fianc�, fianc�e, parent, sibling, or child of anyone who is related to the person within two degrees of consanguinity."

SECTION 3. The members of the contractors license board in office as of the day before the effective day of this Act shall continue to serve until their term expires, at which time, members of the board shall be appointed in the manner set forth in section 2 of this Act.

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that members of the contractors license board on the effective date of their Act shall continue to serve on the board until the expiration of their current term.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Contractors License Board; Members

Description:

Alters the makeup of the contractors license board to include fifteen members, eight of which to have been engaged in contracting in the State for at least five years and seven of which shall be members of the public who are not licensed contractors.

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