Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 230 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the federal government to consider the limited resources of Hawaii contractors in its procurement procedures for goods, services, and construction in Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the House of Representatives Select Committee on War Preparedness.

Although your Committee supports the original intent of this measure as received, your Committee amended this measure to replace its contents with the contents of S.C.R. No. 105, S.D. 1.

S.C.R. No. 105, S.D. 1, urges the United States Army, Air Force, and Navy to select local contractors for projects under the Residential Communities Initiative. The Residential Communities Initiative will bring nearly $3 billion into the State, and your Committee believes that it is vitally important that local contractors are selected for projects under the Residential Communities Initiative.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 230, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 230, S.D. 1.