Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1261, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to implement a more timely and efficient system for purchasing and paying for government small purchase and payment operations by allowing state agencies to purchase goods or services through the use of a state procurement card.

The Department of Accounting and General Services testified in support of this bill. The State Procurement Office supported this measure with recommended revisions.

Your Committee has amended the definition of "procurement card" in this bill to:

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. 1261, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1261, H.D. 2.