STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1605

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1228

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1228, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Establish a process for special innovative procurement for public-private partnerships in the State;

 

(2)  Appropriate funds for a temporary position to assist the Procurement Policy Board; and

 

(3)  Appropriate funds for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to procure services to develop a master plan for the Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital and the Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital.

 

     The State Procurement Office, Kauai Regional Board of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hawaii Farm to School and School Garden Hui, Local Food Coalition, and Ulupono Initiative supported this measure.  The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and General Contractors Association of Hawaii opposed this measure.  The Department of Agriculture; Department of Accounting and General Services; American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii; and Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing professional services from the special innovative procurement process;

    

     (2)  Changing the appropriations for the master plan and the temporary position within the Department of Accounting and General Services to unspecified amounts; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1228, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1228, S.D. 2, H.D. 3.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair