Report Title:

Government Services; Elimination of Duplication

 

Description:

Requires governor and mayors to finalize implementation plans to eliminate duplication of state and county services and develop a timetable determining who delivers services by either agency agreement or managed competition; reports to legislature in 2002, 2003, and 2004 on savings and levels of services.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

196

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the duplication of government services.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Act 223, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, Relating to the Duplication of Government Services, requested the governor and mayors of the respective counties to submit a report of findings and recommendations on eliminating duplication of all government services at the state and county levels with respect to highway and parks services, and a final report on eliminating duplication of all government services at the state and county levels.

A Preliminary Report on Highway and Roadway Maintenance and Parks Programs, dated January 1999, and a Phase Two report that addressed additional areas, dated November 20, 1999, have been submitted to the legislature.

The legislature finds that these two reports addressed areas of duplication, as well as some of the possible options either to reduce duplication, or to declare a finding of non-duplication. The January report found duplication in the provision of highway maintenance and operation services in the areas of administration, baseyard facilities, and overlapping areas of geographic responsibility. In the parks programs, duplication was evident in the areas of maintenance administration, field crews and equipment, as well as program missions whereby transfer of county-compatible parks to the State would reduce overlap.

These two reports fell short of proposing legislation to eliminate the duplication of services, as required by Act 223. Therefore, the governor and mayors must use these reports and program evaluations to craft appropriate solutions. In doing so, the governor and mayors should be mindful of preserving critical services relating to highways, public and private roads, parks, aging, animal control, civil defense system, child support, housing, land use regulations, lands, split ownership of public schools, veterans burial, wastewater, and youth, whether provided by the State or counties.

The purpose of this Act is to require the governor and the mayors of the respective counties to finalize implementation plans to eliminate duplicative services and develop an implementation timetable by November 2001.

SECTION 2. The governor and the mayors of the respective counties, by November 2001, shall:

(1) Finalize implementation plans to eliminate duplicative state and county services;

(2) Develop a timetable to eliminate the duplication of services by:

(A) Agreement between the respective providers of services; or

(B) Implementation of a managed competition process to select a provider of the services; and

(3) Submit any necessary legislation eliminating the duplication of government services.

SECTION 3. The governor and the mayors of their respective counties shall report to the legislature twenty days prior to the legislative sessions of 2002, 2003, and 2004 on the progress of implementation plans, including but not limited to:

(1) Savings realized;

(2) Levels of services affected; and

(3) Any additional problems or issues encountered as the result of the consolidation or elimination of duplicative state and county services.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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