STAND. COM. REP. NO. 34

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 142

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 142 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAILUKU STATE OFFICE MASTER PLAN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop a Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and the old courthouse building;

 

     (2)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to submit the Wailuku state office master plan to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2016; and

 

     (3)  Appropriate a specified sum to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the Wailuku state office master plan.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and three individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will assist in addressing the shortage of space in Wailuku and funding efforts to revamp the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building to reduce the shortage of space.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 142 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair