STAND. COM. REP. NO.  52

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 260

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Economic Revitalization & Business and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 260 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve management and oversight of contracts relating to county public transit by making the director of a county semi-autonomous public transit agency the chief procurement officer for that agency.

     The Department of Transportation Services for the City and County of Honolulu supported this bill. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Revitalization & Business and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 260, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 260, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Revitalization & Business and Transportation,

____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair