STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1763

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.C.R. No. 210

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 210, H.D. 1, entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE FORMATION OF A JOINT LEGISLATIVE PROCUREMENT WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE THE STATE PROCUREMENT CODE AND RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to work toward comprehensively improving the Hawaii State Procurement Code by requesting the formation of a joint Legislative Procurement Working Group to evaluate the Hawaii State Procurement Code and recommend improvements.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation submitted testimony in strong support.  The Department of Accounting and General Services, the University of Hawaii System, and Building Industry Association of Hawaii offered comments. 

    Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Specifying that the Joint Legislative Procurement Working Group include Chapters 103 D and F in their evaluation of Hawaii Public Procurement Code and recommend improvements;   

(2)  Changing the composition of the Joint Legislative Procurement Working Group from three members to four members from both the House of Representatives and the Senate.  Accordingly, changing the amount of majority members sitting on the Working Group from two members to three members and one member from the minority party for both the House and Senate; 

     (3)  Deleting lines 40-42, on page 2, because the Hawaii Procurement Institute resides at the William S. Richardson School of Law but is independent of the University.  

     (4)  Adding Building Industry Association of Hawaii, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Subcontractors Association, the Associated Builders and Contractors and other additional interested trade unions to subsection 8 of the invited persons to attend as interested parties to the Joint Legislative Working Group;

(4)  Making technical, non-substantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 210, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 210, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

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JAMES KUNANE TOKIOKA, Chair