STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3293

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2529

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2529, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt from the Hawaii public procurement code expenditures of less than $100,000 from the Hawaiian home operating fund, Hawaiian home receipts fund, Hawaiian home trust fund, native Hawaiian rehabilitation fund, and Hawaiian home administration account.

 

     This measure also requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit an annual report to the Legislature that includes solicitations of goods, services, and construction, types of procurements, and awardees.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the State Procurement Office.  Aupuni O Hawaii submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will improve the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' efficiency by requiring it to develop, consistent with the goals of public accountability, streamlined procurement procedures for smaller contracts.  These streamlined procedures will provide greater access to the procurement process by locally owned businesses that find current procurement procedures present too many technical barriers.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2529, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair