STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2479

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3101

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3101 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a public-private partnership resource agency within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, for all state departments, divisions, and agencies to utilize.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State needs creative mechanisms to generate revenues to address increased spending on public services, repairs, facility maintenance, and backlogged projects.  Partnerships with the private sector bring enhanced efficiencies to funding, faster and less expensive project implementation, economic development and investment opportunities, and access to private sector expertise, thus enabling the sustainable management and maintenance of facilities; however, the State lacks a comprehensive process for all agencies to engage in public-private partnerships.  This measure requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to lead an effort to determine the feasibility of one option to facilitate partnership efforts.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3101 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology,

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair