STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1489

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1292

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1292, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to convene a procurement task force to examine procurement process cost impacts on public works construction projects and recommend contractor past performance standards and statewide contracting processes.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the State Procurement Office, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Child & Family Service, the General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Goodwill Industries Hawaii, the Hawaii Procurement Institute, Lanakila Pacific, and Partners in Development.  The Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that continuing the work of the procurement task force that was created pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 92, S.D. 2 (2013) will take advantage of the experience and work undertaken by the task force thus far and will leverage opportunities to promote economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and impartiality in the procurement of public works contracts.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting a provision that requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to convene a new procurement task force;

     (2)  Providing instead that the Comptroller shall continue to convene the procurement task force created pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 92, S.D. 2 (2013); and

     (3)  Deleting a provision exempting task force members from the Code of Ethics, chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), since similar exemptions have already been provided by Act 208, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, and codified in chapter 84, HRS.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1292, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1292, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair