STAND. COM. REP. NO. 588

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 19

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 19 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the Administrative Director of the Courts has the power to serve as Chief Procurement Officer for the Judiciary.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee believes that this measure is unnecessary, since section 103D-203(a)(1), Hawaii Revised Statutes, already designates the Administrative Director of the Courts as the Chief Procurement Officer for the Judiciary.

 

     Accordingly, upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting provisions to provide a procurement preference to a contractor in a public works construction contract of not less than $250,000 if the contractor is a party to an apprenticeship agreement registered with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations at the time of general bidding.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 19, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 19, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair