STAND. COM. REP. NO.  268

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1093

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1093 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISCLOSURES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage transparency among organizations that affect the rights of Native Hawaiians by requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to submit annual reports detailing all departmental contracts for services.

 

     An individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands provided comments on this measure.

 

     As clarified in discussion at the hearing in response to concerns raised by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, your Committees note that this measure is intended to:

 

     (1)  Require a separate report from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs;

 

     (2)  Encompass in the term "contracts for services," each department's contracts for outsourced services with third parties; and

 

     (3)  Require on a going forward basis, upon a department's entering into a contract, a report from the department that includes:

 

(A)  Information on which party initiated the contract; and

 

(B)  Depending on who initiated the contract, information on whether a third party facilitated the contract.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1093 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair