STAND. COM. REP. 96

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1137

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1137 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRODUCT PROCUREMENT PREFERENCES BY STATE AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage recycling and stimulate economic development by allowing for recycled-content product preferences to be applied cumulatively to procurement bids with in-state contractor and made-in-Hawaii product preferences.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Hawaiian Earth Products, Ltd. testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that the cumulative preference allowed in this bill would encourage in-state contractors bidding on public works projects to use locally produced and recycled products in state projects. Otherwise, local contractors would opt to use the in-state contractor's seven percent preference on the total bid, rather than the other preferences that apply only to the products.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to ensure it conforms to drafting conventions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1137, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1137, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection,

 

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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair