STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1130

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1366

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1366 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE ACQUISITION OR DEVELOPMENT OF REAL PROPERTY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to identify, plan, and acquire or build upon real property in urban Honolulu to provide office space for state governmental agencies and offices.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that additional infrastructure is needed to house state agencies.  Current office space is insufficient, and additional space needs to be made available for state departments and agencies in urban Honolulu.  Due to the high costs of development and limited resources, creative solutions are needed to solve the facilities shortage.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding language requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to:

 

          (A)  Undertake lease buyback processing under the program of centralized engineering and office leasing services;

 

          (B)  Facilitate facility agreements between the State and private investors; and

 

          (C)  Conduct an inventory of all leases of property to state agencies and appropriate funds to carry out that purpose; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1366, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1366, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Government Operations,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair