THE SENATE
                THE TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE
                 REGULAR SESSION OF 1999

      MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1999


     COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AND HOUSING

                        1:30 p.m.
                   Conference Room 224

         DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING BILLS
             (Deferred from March 23, 1999)


HB 747 HD1  RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT                      GOH, WAM
PROP SD1   Specific   criteria   that   the   managed  process
           committee shall use  when developing costing models
           and ensuring correct allocations of overhead costs;
           use of  uniform  accounting  standards  to evaluate
           efficiency,  effectiveness   and   economy  of  the
           purchase; establishes a joint task force to revisit
           studies on improving  government services; requires
           government agencies to prepare goals and objectives
           in determining budget priorities; prohibit agencies
           from charging each other  for  services paid for by
           general  funds;   requiring  independent  financial
           audits of state  agencies; charging each government
           agency for  insurance  costs;  places  the advocacy
           services    for    persons    with    developmental
           disabilities and mental  illness  in  the office of
           the consumer protector;  prohibits  issuinance of a
           permit for medical  waste  disposal within 500 feet
           of any residential dwelling.

HB 985 SD1  RELATING TO PROCUREMENT                           GOH, WAM
           Provides  for   indegenous   plant  use;  pollution
           control;  energy   efficiency/life  cycle  costing;
           value  engineering;   amends   contract  retention;
           increases  service  contracts  to  $25,000;  use of
           instructional  material  by  the  physically handi-
           capped and the  visually  impaired; exempts chapter
           42F and 103F; includes  chief engineer of boards of
           water  supply;   annual   inventory   reporting  by
           counties; repeals Parts III  and  V of chapter 103,
           HRS; membership  of  civil  service;  preference to
           community rehabilitation programs.


                   No testimony will be accepted.

For further information, please call the committee clerk at 586-6686.