Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2681 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that public works projects will have plans or specifications prepared or supervised by a licensed design professional.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Transportation, Department of Accounting and General Services and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

Your Committees find that this measure retains the original intent of this statute, which is to protect the public by requiring licensed professionals to provide the plans or specifications for public works involving alterations or new construction. However this measure differentiates these new or alteration construction from maintenance construction, which would only require observation of the maintenance work by a licensed design professional designated by the government agency undertaking the public works project. These types of project should be differentiated and allow discretion in situations where plans are not necessary.

Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2681, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2681, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.