STAND. COM. REP. NO. 550

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1003

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1003 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INNOVATIVE PROJECT DELIVERY GUIDELINES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Establish the temporary Innovative Project Delivery Guidelines Task Force within the Department of Accounting and General Services; 

 

     (2)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to adopt rules based on the Task Force's recommendations for the use of innovative project delivery approaches by state agencies; and

 

     (3)  Appropriate funds for the procurement, hiring, or securing of experts and professional advisory services.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Transportation, and Ulupono Initiative.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that the existing public procurement code does not preclude innovative project delivery modes, but more guidance and specific procedures are needed.  This measure establishes the Innovative Project Delivery Guidelines Task Force to develop guidelines and procedures that will enable state agencies to enter into innovative project delivery arrangements for qualified public infrastructure projects. 

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding the Administrator of the State Procurement Office or Administrator's designee to the Innovative Project Delivery Guidelines Task Force; and

 

     (2)  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 Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1003, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1003, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Government Operations,

 

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LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair