STAND. COM. REP. NO. 226

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1755

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1755 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PROCUREMENT INSTITUTE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the Hawaii Procurement Institute (Institute) by:

(1) Transferring oversight of the Institute from the State Procurement Office to the University of Hawaii's School of Law; and

(2) Appropriating an unspecified amount of funds for operating expenses of the Institute.

The Institute, Principle-Centered Solutions, Khlopin Financial Services, The Limtiaco Company, New Horizons Computer Learning Center, HARK, Inc., CyberCom, Inc., and four concerned citizens supported this measure. The Department of Accounting and General Services and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure. The State Procurement Office offered comments.

 

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Inserting an appropriation of $200,000 for operating expenses of the Institute; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1755, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1755, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment,

 

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KIRK CALDWELL, Chair

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair