STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2716

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2866

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Government Operations and Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2866 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committees find that government transparency allows the public to review government decisions and provide meaningful feedback by engaging in the political process. Your Committees also find that capital improvement projects are construction projects that provide improvements or additions to state land, buildings, and infrastructure. Your Committees believe that, since these projects are typically large and expensive, the citizenry should have the ability to publicly inspect completed or pending projects and any information related to those projects. This measure will allow the electorate to reasonably express their approval or disapproval for capital improvement projects.

Your Committees have heard the testimony of the Office of Enterprise Technology Services expressing concerns that the online project management platform established by this measure should have a business executive sponsor that can identify the data needed, set rules for use, and validate compliance. Your Committees find that this issue merits further consideration and requests your Committee on Ways and Means examine the issue further should it choose to deliberate on this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Labor and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2866 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Labor and Technology,

________________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

________________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair