STAND. COM. REP. NO.  380

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 697

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 697 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FACILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the Department of Accounting and General Services' (DAGS) statutory duty to undertake centralized engineering and office leasing services for state departments to establish the Department as the lead department for negotiating and processing real property leases for State departments and agencies.

 

     The Building Industry Association Hawaii supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department of Transportation; Department of Accounting and General Services; and the University of Hawaii opposed this measure.  A concerned individual commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the provisions that establish DAGS as the lead department for negotiating and processing real property leases for State departments and agencies;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Auditor to conduct a study of various departmental engineering sections that manage general fund capital improvement projects to determine if it is in the public interest to continue to operate duplicative engineering operations among various departments throughout State government projects in light of DAGS' statutory duty to undertake centralized engineering for state departments;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 697, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 697, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair