STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2268

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2890

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2890 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop or license cloud-based software for use by each state department or agency to track the status of its capital improvement projects;

(2) Require the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to provide training for the software; and

(3) Require each department or agency to use the software to track the status of its capital improvement projects.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Office of Community Services and the Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committee finds that currently there is no official statewide or standardized method for the State to track the status of its capital improvement project spending or progress. A tracking system of this nature would prove invaluable for a department or agency to track its capital improvement projects, especially if the agency has many projects ongoing simultaneously. This measure creates such a tracking system to be dispersed among State agencies and departments to ease the burden of manually tracking these expenditures.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the administrative agency for the measure from the Office of Enterprise Technology to the Department of Accounting and General Services;

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2890, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2890, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Technology,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair