STAND. COM. REP. NO.1415
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 749
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 749, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to assure compliance with federal and state laws regarding employment and bid preferences for state residents by:
(1) Defining "state resident," "state contractor," and "state subcontractor"; and
(2) Changing the bid preference in favor of state contractors from 7 percent to a blank percent.
The Department of business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the State AFL-CIO, Hawaii Construction Industry Association, Koga Engineering & Construction, Inc., Albert C. Kobayashi, Inc., Jayar Construction, Inc., T. Iida Contracting, Ltd., S&M Sakamoto, Inc., Walter Y. Arakaki General Contractor, Inc., Royal Contracting Company, Ralph S. Inouye, Co., Ltd., Isemoto Contracting Co. Ltd., PLA Incorporated, and the Plumbers and Fitters Union submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Accounting and General Services testified in support of the intent of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by restoring the bid preference to 7 percent.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 749, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 749, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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