Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Business and Economic Development and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2709 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish, maintain, and post on the Internet a list of projected state and county construction projects.

This measure also makes an appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to enable the department to implement a plan to collect and disseminate construction data statewide.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

There is an estimated $10,000,000,000 boom in new construction occurring in the State and the installation of oversight mechanisms is imperative to ensure the most efficient commitment of state resources and the most successful long-term forecasting. A useful oversight mechanism would be a centralized internet listing of projected government construction projects. Your Committees find that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is the appropriate state entity to gather information and produce a centralized electronic listing of statewide construction projects. The department will establish and maintain a comprehensive list on the Internet of all projected construction projects by state and county government agencies, which will be updated quarterly.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Business and Economic Development and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2709 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.