STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1061

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 722

      S.D. 2

      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 Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 722, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Accounting and General Services to inventory and maintain in a comprehensive asset management system information about public buildings, facilities, and sites owned or operated by state agencies and located on public trust land.  

 

     The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and one individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Office of Information Management & Technology submitted comments.  

 

     Your Committees find that the ultimate, long-term goal of this measure, the efficient and resource-effective management of of public buildings, facilities, and sites located on public trust land, is laudable.  However, your Committees recognize the practical limitations involved in the establishment of a department-specific asset management system, particularly in context of the State's current efforts to establish an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning system that includes an asset management function, which is slated to become operational in 2016.  Your Committees find that although requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish its own asset management platform would be an inefficient use of resources, enabling the Department to serve as a collection point for already-existing information from other state departments and agencies will aid the Office of Information Management & Technology in its efforts by facilitating the data-gathering process.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting language that required the Department of Accounting and General Services to create an asset-management information system for public buildings, facilities, and sites on lands of the public land trust as well as related language regarding the Department's information gathering and aggregation functions;

 

     (2)  Deleting language requiring all other state agencies to transfer to the Department the agencies' information infrastructure related to inventory and management of public buildings, facilities, and sites and to submit annual inventory updates to the Department;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the Department's role in creating an asset management system shall be limited to accepting inventory information from state agencies;

 

     (4)  Requiring the Department to report to the 2014 Legislature on its progress in accepting inventory information from other state agencies and adjusting the agencies' reporting deadline accordingly; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 722, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 722, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair