STAND. COM. REP. NO. 651

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 830

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 830, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SHARED SERVICES TECHNOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the shared services technology fund to allow state departments and agencies to pool resources for common technology systems, hardware, and software.

     Your Committee received one written comment on this measure.  Copies of written comments submitted to the Committee are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that pooling department and agency resources is an efficient method of reducing operating and administrative costs, optimizing purchasing power through bulk contracts and sales, and reducing the time spent on processing purchase orders.  Your Committee believes during this time of fiscal restraint that the shared services technology fund, through streamlined purchasing and bulk purchases, will assist the State in minimizing budgetary costs and maximize limited resources.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purpose of clarity and consistency.

     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. 830, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 830, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair