STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2046

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2540

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2540 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Governor to negotiate with any person for the development or expansion of a forensic facility of the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health and Office of Environmental Quality Control.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Health is proposing to undertake the construction of a new building at the Hawaii State Hospital.  The new building is of high priority because of census and health and safety issues at the hospital.  To expedite the development, the Department of Health and Department of Accounting and General Services intend to use the design-build process.  However, the Department of Health and Department of Accounting and General Services may need more flexibility to move quickly, such as the mechanism proposed by this measure, to allow the Governor to expedite the development of a critically needed building.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2540 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair