STAND. COM. REP. NO. 768

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 986
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
986, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REMEDIES OF PART VII, CHAPTER
     103D, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify:

     (1)  Procedures to protest contract awards under the
          procurement code; and

     (2)  Related available remedies.

     The State Procurement Office testified in support of this
bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
986, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 986, H.D. 2.


 
 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair