STAND. COM. REP. 2766

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2379

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2379, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a construction research program within the College of Engineering of the University of Hawaii. The measure also appropriates an unspecified sum to plan, design, implement, and operate the program.

Your Committee finds that, among its many tasks, the functions of the construction research program are to:

(1) Perform a comprehensive analyses of the construction industry in Hawaii;

(2) Study labor conditions, productivity, capital financing, and other issues to enhance the knowledge and technology base of construction in Hawaii;

(3) Provide decision making information to government decision makers on appropriate construction costs;

(4) Coordinate and provide technical assistance and educational information to appropriate organizations and contractors; and

(5) Provide advocacy to the Legislature relating to future legislative changes to improve the construction industry in Hawaii.

Your Committee believes that a construction research program ultimately will result in improved construction practices that are both efficient and cost-saving, producing benefits to the construction industry, consumers, and the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency; and

(2) Changing the effective date to facilitate further discussion on this matter.

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. 2379, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2379, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair