STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2283

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2659

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Government Operations and Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2659 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to amend various sections of the Hawaii Public Procurement Code, chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to simplify and streamline the procurement processes to enable agencies to expeditiously acquire the resources or services they need to perform their missions.

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to your Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that it is valuable, particularly in these economic times, to streamline the procurement process in order to lower processing costs for and speed acquisition of goods and services by governmental agencies, while providing fairness, open competition, and transparency.  Your Committees note that there is another measure also relating to procurement, S.B. No. 2062, and believe that the streamlining provisions of S.B. No. 2659 should be incorporated into S.B. No. 2062 for convenience of discussion, while the amendments to the biofuel and oil recycling preferences may be better examined outside of the framework of an omnibus streamlining measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting all portions of the measure unrelated to the biofuel and oil recycling preferences, specifically all sections except for sections 1 and 26, and the portion of section 22 that adds new definitions to section 103D‑1001, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency, conformity, and avoidance of redundancy.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Government Operations and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2659, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2659, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Government Operations and Energy and Environment,

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair

____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair