STAND. COM. REP. NO.  133-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2676

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2676 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to better facilitate the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission's (KIRC) ability to carry out its statutory duties to protect, preserve, and rehabilitate the Island of Kaho‘olawe by providing an exemption from the state procurement code for contracts made by KIRC for the procurement of food or fuel products.

     KIRC and the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs supported this bill.  The State Procurement Office opposed this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2676 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

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MELE CARROLL, Chair