Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2680 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the project specification requirements of state educational facilities repair and maintenance projects.

Specifically, this bill deletes the requirement to develop and maintain a qualified product list by model or catalog number, and instead allows project specifications to be written either as generic specifications or as prescriptive specifications without limiting the acceptable products.

Your Committee finds that this bill does not diminish the requirements of school repair and maintenance but allows more cost-effective and efficient processes to achieve similar results.

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. 2680 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.