Bill Text: HI SB775 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Construction Site Inspection Task Force; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB775 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB775-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 732

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 775

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 775, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION SITES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Continue the work of the Construction Site Inspection Task Force, established pursuant to Act 121, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, for one year;

 

     (2)  Direct the task force to focus on issues relating to contractor license enforcement; and

 

     (3)  Appropriate moneys from the compliance resolution fund to support the activities of the task force.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Dwight Y. Takamine, Interim Director, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Jo Ann Uchida, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Regulated Industries Complaints Office.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Construction Site Inspection Task Force was established pursuant to Act 121, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, to analyze the feasibility and potential complications of implementing a task force to investigate and inspect construction sites for unlicensed contractors, undocumented workers, and workplace safety violations.  Your Committee also finds that unlicensed construction activity undermines the State's regulatory system and puts contractors who follow the law at a disadvantage.  Your Committee further finds that continuing the work of the task force will enhance the ability of all affected departments to enforce existing laws and deter unlicensed activity.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the dollar amounts of all fees and surcharges collected to offset the work of the task force to unspecified amounts;

 

     (2)  Changing the term "centralized debt collection system" to "centralized penalty collection system" to more clearly reflect the scope of the task force's analysis;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes 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. 775, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 775, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair