Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2423 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to update the public works law by basing the requirement that a licensed professional supervise certain public work projects on the type of work rather than the dollar amount of the project.

The Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and Landscape Architects and Department of Accounting and General Services testified in support of this measure. The Department of Transportation and American Public Works Association – Hawaii Chapter supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 H.B. No. 2423, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2423, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.