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 S.B. No. 2680 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is make school repair and maintenance projects more cost effective, efficient, and flexible by requiring the Comptroller to develop specifications based on generic or prescriptive specifications using standard commercial products, in lieu of the current practice of establishing a qualified product list.

The Department of Education and Department of Accounting and General Services supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

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. 2680, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2680, H.D. 1.