STAND. COM. REP. NO. 901

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 165

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 165, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FACILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Accounting and General Services to negotiate and process leases for state departments and agencies.

 

     The measure also requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to facilitate facility agreements between the State and private investors for the sale of state facilities.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and University of Hawaii.  The Department of Accounting and General Services provided written comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Accounting and General Services is currently authorized by law to assist any department or agency with leasing of office space.  Your Committee further finds that an inventory of all leases of property between state agencies and private entities would assist the Legislature in establishing policies relating to state facilities.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the new section 26-6(b)(7), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to negotiate and process leases for departments and agencies of the State;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to undertake lease buyback processing, rather than lease negotiation and lease processing, under the program of centralized engineering and office lease services;

 

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to conduct an inventory of all leases of property between state agencies and private entities and report its results to the Legislature; and

 

     (4)  Inserting a new section appropriating an unspecified amount for the Department of Accounting and General Services to perform the inventory.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 165, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 165, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

________________________________

JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair