Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 15 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to restore the ability of the University of Hawaii (UH) to establish internal policies and procedures for the procurement of goods, services, and construction, by exempting it from the Hawaii Procurement Code (Code). However, the bill encourages the UH Board of Regents to use the provisions of the Code where possible.

UH testified in support of this bill. The State Procurement Office offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 15, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 15, H.D. 1.