Bill Text: HI SB986 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Contractors; Licensing; Specialty Contractors

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-24 - Referred to CPN. [SB986 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB986-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	986
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO CONTRACTORS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that general contractors are permitted under current law to also act as specialty licensed contractors.  The legislature further finds that allowing general contractors that are not also licensed as specialty contractors to engage in doing specialty work poses a risk to public safety.  Specialty contractor licenses are intended to ensure that the work meets industry standards for each specialty.

     The purpose of this Act is to require general engineering contractors and general building contractors to engage subcontractors with appropriate specialty licenses to complete incidental work.

     SECTION 2.  Section 444-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

     ""Incidental work" means any work directly related to a larger or major project or operation that requires a specialty contractor license held by a general engineering contractor, general building contractor, or specialty contractor and for which the aggregate subcontract price for labor, materials, taxes, and all other items is not more than one half per cent of the total contract."

     SECTION 3.  Section 444-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows:

     "(b)  A general engineering contractor is a contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with fixed works requiring specialized engineering knowledge and skill, including the following divisions or subjects:  irrigation, drainage, water power, water supply, flood control, inland waterways, harbors, docks and wharves, shipyards and ports, dams and hydroelectric projects, levees, river control and reclamation works, railroads, highways, streets and roads, tunnels, airports and airways, sewers and sewage disposal plants and systems, waste reduction plants, bridges, overpasses, underpasses and other similar works, pipelines and other systems for the transmission of petroleum and other liquid or gaseous substances, parks, playgrounds and other recreational works, refineries, chemical plants and similar industrial plants requiring specialized engineering knowledge and skill, powerhouses, power plants and other utility plants and installations, mines and metallurgical plants, land [levelling] leveling and earth-moving projects, excavating, grading, trenching, paving and surfacing work and cement and concrete works in connection with the above mentioned fixed works.

     A general engineering contractor shall engage subcontractors that hold appropriate specialty licenses to do incidental work.

     (c)  A general building contractor is a contractor whose principal contracting business is in connection with any structure built, being built, or to be built, for the support, shelter, and enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind, requiring in its construction the use of more than two unrelated building trades or crafts, or to do or superintend the whole or any part thereof.

     A general building contractor shall engage subcontractors that hold appropriate specialty licenses to do incidental work."

     SECTION 4.  Section 444-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§444-9  Licenses required.  No person within the purview of this chapter shall act, or assume to act, or advertise, as general engineering contractor, general building contractor, or specialty contractor without a license previously obtained under and in compliance with this chapter and the rules and regulations of the contractors license board.  A general engineering contractor or general building contractor shall not perform incidental work and supplemental work."

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Contractors; Licensing; Specialty Contractors

 

Description:

Prohibits general engineering contractors and general building contractors from performing incidental or supplemental work.  Requires general engineering contractors and general building contractors to engage an appropriate specialty contractor to perform incidental work.  Defines incidental work.

 

 

 

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