STAND. COM. REP. NO.679

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 696

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 696 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal unnecessary statutory requirements for the maintenance and reporting of a record of procurements under the Hawaii Procurement Code.

Currently, section 103D-321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires all chief procurement officers to maintain, for a minimum of five years, a record of all procurements for goods, services, and construction of $25,000 or more that is required under certain procurement laws. This provision also requires that this information be submitted annually to the Legislature.

Your Committee finds that this requirement is not necessary, because the same information is available elsewhere.

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the State Procurement Office testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 696 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair