Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 36, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to exempt from the procurement code the purchase of goods and services for inmate commissary or store operations in state correctional facilities when the purchase involves inmate trust accounts and no public funds are used.

ARAMARK Correctional Services, Inc., testified in support of this bill. The Department of Public Safety and Department of Accounting and General Services opposed this measure. The State Procurement Office provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 H.B. No. 36, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 36, H.D. 2.