STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1454

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 59

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 59, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES TO DULY CONSIDER WOMEN-, VETERAN-, AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN-OWNED BUSINESSES WHEN AWARDING STATE CONTRACTS, AND REQUESTING ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES TO SUBMIT TO THE LEGISLATURE A LIST OF STATE CONTRACTS AWARDED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS TO WOMEN-, VETERAN-, AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN-OWNED BUSINESSES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose and intent of this measure is to address state contracts with women-, veteran-, and Native Hawaiian-owned businesses.

 

More specifically, this measure:

 

(1)  Urges state departments and agencies to duly consider women-, veteran-, and Native Hawaiian-owned businesses when awarding state contracts; and

 

(2)  Requests certain state departments to submit to the Legislature, no later than October 1, 2017, a list of its state contracts awarded to women-, veteran-, and Native Hawaiian-owned businesses in the last two years.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; State Procurement Office; Office of Veterans' Services; AMEL Technologies, Inc.; and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure represents a reasonable effort to promote the awarding of state contracts to women-, veteran-, and Native Hawaiian-owned businesses.  Accordingly, your Committee supports this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 59, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair