CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 67

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2015

 

RE:    H.B. No. 206

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir and Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 206, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN PLANTS,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the Hawaii Public Procurement Code to require that all publicly-funded landscaping projects include a specified minimum percentage of Hawaiian plants in order to contribute to a Hawaiian sense of place, reduce the use of non-native and invasive plant species, and preserve Hawaii's ecological and cultural heritage.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the procedure for determining allowable exemptions from the required minimum percentage of Hawaiian plants by specifying that the Procurement Policy Board may establish procedures, standards, or guidelines without regard to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for determining exclusions from total plant footprint calculations at the time that invitations for bids, requests for proposals, or other solicitations for each landscaping project are issued;

 

     (2)  Specifying that Hawaiian plants that satisfy the minimum percentage requirement include both indigenous and endemic plant species; and

 

     (3)  Making the measure effective upon approval and making the statutory section establishing the required minimum percentages of Hawaiian plants effective on June 30, 2016. 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 206, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 206, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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KANIELA ING, Co-Chair

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Co-Chair

 

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NICOLE E. LOWEN, Co-Chair