STAND. COM. REP. NO. 163

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1288

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Tourism and International Affairs and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 1288 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the Hawaii Pacific Small Business Consortium to help small businesses obtain government contracts and to develop business opportunities for small businesses by combining their resources to offer services and solutions to the federal, state, and county governments and the commercial sector.

 

     Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Hawaii Procurement Technical Assistance Center.

 

     Your Committees find that a vibrant small business environment is essential to a healthy economy, and your Committees support efforts to provide greater resources and business opportunities to Hawaii's small businesses.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism and International Affairs and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1288, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1288, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism and International Affairs and Economic Development and Technology,

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair

 

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GILBERT KAHELE, Chair