Bill Text: HI SB512 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electrical Contractors; Licensing; Exemptions; High Voltage

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-01 - Act 065, 4/30/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). [SB512 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB512-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1135

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 512

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 512, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide a limited exemption to the licensing requirements for certain individuals in situations where an electric utility must retain qualified individuals to work with high voltage who are not licensed in the State, but otherwise deemed qualified by the electric utility.

 

     The Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, and Maui Electric Company supported this measure.  The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers supported the intent of this measure.  The Contractors License Board and Board of Electricians and Plumbers opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Specifying that the limited exemption applies to employees of a licensed contractor and that the contractor be retained by a public utility that is regulated by the Public Utilities Commission;

 

(2)  Providing that the individuals exempted shall not be less qualified than the public utility's own employees who perform such high voltage electrical work;

 

(3)  Providing that the employees qualifying of the limited exemption who are employed by a licensed contractor that is retained by the public utility shall not be counted in calculating the percentage of licensed employees at a job site; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style. 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 512, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 512, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair		____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair