STAND. COM. REP. NO. 909

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 162

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 162, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist small business by requiring the Procurement Policy Board to adopt rules to promote the growth and development of small businesses, including:

(1) Set asides for small businesses in appropriate classifications of requirements suitable to performance by small businesses; and

(2) Criteria designed to encourage the use of small businesses as subcontractors on large contracts.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii supported this bill. The Department of Accounting and General Services supported this bill and offered amendments. The State Procurement Office supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion; and

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

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. 162, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 162, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair