Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1077 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require bidders for printing and advertising services to file a sworn statement with the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations that the services to be performed will be performed under certain conditions.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure, with proposed amendments, from the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Hawaii Newspaper Guild.

Your Committee agrees with the intent of this bill, and finds that it will help to ensure that those who bid on state contracts for printing and advertising compete on an equal basis.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date from upon approval to July 1, 2020, to facilitate additional discussion on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1077, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1077, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.