STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1254-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2866

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Executive Branch of the State to develop and maintain a publicly accessible online project management platform.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

Your Committee finds that capital improvement projects are construction projects that provide improvements or additions to land, buildings, and infrastructure. Because these projects are typically large and expensive, the public should have access to information related to completed or pending projects. This measure promotes government transparency and provides the public a meaningful way of engagement in the political process.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the online project management platform shall be developed and maintained no later than July 1, 2025; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2866, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Government Operations,

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SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair