STAND. COM. REP. NO.  212-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2890

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2890 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to contract with archaeologists without regard to the procurement code and exempt contracts for archaeological services between DLNR and archaeologists from the requirements of the procurement code.

     The Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii Government Employees Association, and Society for Hawaiian Archaeology opposed this measure.  The State Procurement Office provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by providing a repeal date of January 1, 2010.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2890, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2890, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Labor & Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KEN ITO, Chair