SB2874

Report Title:

Small Business

Description:

Redefines duties of chief procurement officer.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2874
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Relating to small business.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 103D-902, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§103D-902 Small business assistance. The [policy board] state procurement office shall [adopt rules] implement programs to assist small businesses in learning how to do business with the State."

SECTION 2. Section 103D-903, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§103D-903 Duties of the chief procurement officer. (a) The chief procurement officer [may] shall coordinate the implementation of this part with any similar programs offered by the department of business, economic development, and tourism or any other governmental body.

(b) The chief procurement officer may provide staff to provide service to designated state agencies to assist small businesses in learning how to do business with the State.

(c) In carrying out this part, the chief procurement officer [may] shall:

(1) Give special publicity to procurement procedures and issue special publications designed to assist small businesses in learning how to do business with the State;

(2) Compile, maintain, and make available source lists of small businesses for the purpose of encouraging procurement from small business;

(3) Include small businesses on solicitation mailing lists;

(4) Develop and conduct training programs to assist small businesses;

(5) Reduce the level or change the types of bonding normally required or accept alternative forms of security;

(6) Make special provisions for progress payments;

(7) Establish the goal that twenty per cent of the State's annual purchasing expenditure be awarded to small business; [and]

(8) [Impose mandatory evaluation criteria designed to encourage the use of small business as subcontractors on large contracts not susceptible to performance by small business."] Track and publish to the public, an annual small business procurement report; and

(9) Implement a small business subcontracting rule that is defined by title 48 Code of the Federal Regulations section 52.219-9 ("Small business contracting plan")."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________