KA ‘AHA KENEKOA
THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2023
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Senator Angus L.K. McKelvey, Chair |
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Senator Mike Gabbard, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 |
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3:00 PM |
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Conference Room 225 & Videoconference State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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The Legislature is accepting written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.
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A G E N D A
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED REPORTS. Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda and variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED REPORTS. Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED REPORTS. Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED SUBMISSIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE. Authorizes the Legislature to specify the form for which the proposed budgets of the Executive branch, Judiciary branch, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs are submitted to the Legislature.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO SUBMISSION DEADLINES. Establishes a submission deadline for various reports to the legislature that currently do not have a deadline.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO GRANTS-IN-AID. Requires organizations to obtain legislative approval prior to the disposition of land that was acquired with state grants.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. Requires procurement officers, when assessing an offeror's responsibility, to require the offeror to submit answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire. Establishes certain questions that must be included in the questionnaire. Requires offerors to submit the questionnaire on an annual basis to be prequalified as responsible for projects by the procurement office. Provides that the information furnished in response to the questionnaire shall be available for public inspection and duplication.
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GVO, JDC |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent or substantially increases the scope of work be considered a new contract for procurement purpose.
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GVO, WAM/JDC |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC TESTIMONY AT OPEN MEETINGS. Specifies that boards subject to the open meetings law shall allow oral testimony on any agenda item at the beginning of the board's agenda or meeting, provided that oral testimony shall not be limited to the beginning of a board's agenda. Specifies an exception for the legislative body of each county.
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GVO, JDC |
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RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULES. Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format.
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GVO, JDC |
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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Please note the following:
· The number of oral testifiers and/or time allotted to each testifier may be limited by the Chair when necessary to adhere to the committee hearing schedule. We may not be able to accommodate everyone who requests to testify orally.
· Testifiers for this hearing will be limited to 2 minutes each.
If you wish to testify via videoconference during the hearing, please review the detailed step-by-step instructions for testimony procedures before you submit your written testimony. Here's a direct link to the instructions: https://capitol.hawaii.gov/docs/testimonyinstructions.pdf
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For special assistance: The cable TV broadcast and/or live stream of this meeting will include closed captioning. If you require other auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., interpretive services (oral or written) or ASL interpreter), or are unable to submit testimony via the website due to a disability, please contact the committee at [email protected] at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.
For amended notices: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6070.
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_____________________________________ Senator Angus L.K. McKelvey Chair |
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