STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2600

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2521
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2521, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
     CONTRACTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish disclosure
requirements for purchasing agencies with respect to contracts
for professional services of $250,000 or more.

     Specifically, this bill provides that with respect to these
professional service contracts, the contracting agency, within an
unspecified number of days of awarding such a contract, is to
post on the agency's bulletin board and make available on the
Internet the names of up to the top five qualifiers, the name of
the firm or individual awarded the contract, the principal
officers of the firm awarded the contract, and any relationship
of the principals to the official making the award.

     In addition, the contracting agency must make available
annually on the agency's bulletin board and the Internet a report
of all contracts for professional services, including the name of
the contracting agency and the amount and type of each contract
awarded.


 
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     Your Committee agrees with the intent of this bill, and
finds that it will provide the public with more easily accessible
information on professional service contracts as well as increase
public confidence in the integrity of public officials and the
procedures followed in public procurement.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2521, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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