Bill Text: HI HB81 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Relating To Contractors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-03-05 - Referred to CPH. [HB81 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-HB81-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

81

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO CONTRACTORS.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 444-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  This section shall not prohibit a specialty contractor, acting as a subcontractor, from taking and executing a contract involving the use of two or more crafts or trades, if the performance of the work in the crafts or trades, other than in which the specialty contractor is licensed, is incidental and supplemental to the performance of work in the craft for which the specialty contractor is licensed[.]; provided that:

     (1)  Performance by a specialty contractor of incidental and supplemental work outside of the specialty contractor's licensure shall be prohibited on any project requiring the seal or stamp of a professional engineer licensed to perform structural engineering; and

     (2)  The performance of work in the crafts or trades of the following specialty contractor's licensure shall not be incidental and supplemental work:

          (A)  Carpentry framing contractor;

          (B)  Masonry contractor;

          (C)  Pile driving, pile and caisson drilling, and foundation contractor;

          (D)  Post tensioning contractor;

          (E)  Reinforcing steel contractor;

          (F)  Structural steel contractor; and

          (G)  Welding contractor.

     For the purposes of this subsection, "professional engineer" shall have the same meaning as in section 464-1."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2050.



 

Report Title:

Incidental and Supplemental Work; Contractors; Professional Engineer

 

Description:

Prohibits the performance of incidental and supplemental work outside the scope of licensure by a specialty contractor on any project requiring the seal or stamp of a licensed structural engineer.  Specifies that the performance of work in certain crafts or trades shall not be considered incidental and supplemental.  (HB81 HD1)

 

 

 

The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.

 

feedback