STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2747
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2826
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2008
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2826, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to transfer responsibilities for procurement practices training and development from the Department of Human Resources Development to the State Procurement Office. In addition, the measure:
(1) Mandates procurement practices training for procurement officers of the State and county; and
(2) Clarifies that the Comptroller serves as an ex-officio nonvoting member of the State Procurement Policy Board.
The State Procurement Office submitted comments.
Your Committee finds that procurement training is an important and vital tool for ensuring that proper procurement practices are achieved in expenditures of public moneys. Your Committee further finds that the charge of conducting procurement training is more appropriately situated with the State Procurement Office rather than the Department of Human Resources Development.
Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify that, although procurement practices training is available to procurement officers of the State and the counties, attendance at procurement training programs is mandatory only for state procurement officers. Attendance is elective for county procurement officers.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2826, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2826, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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