STAND. COM. REP. NO.  841-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2527

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2527 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a committee on progress of construction projects to monitor certain state construction projects and bring impediments to the attention of the decision-makers.

 

     The Office of the Governor and Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Including special interest projects designated by the Governor for inclusion in monitoring by the committee;

 

     (2)  Allowing the committee to elect one or more vice chairpersons;

 

     (3)  Allowing the committee to require that reports prepared by the expending agencies be in a standardized format;

 

     (4)  Clarifying that DAGS must support the committee with funds appropriated for that purpose;

 

     (5)  Clarifying that each expending agency will bear its own costs in reporting to the committee;

 

     (6)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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 H.B. No. 2527, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2527, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair