STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1161

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 823

      S.D. 1

      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 Transportation and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred S.B. No. 823, S.D. 1, 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 City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

     On November 2, 2010, an amendment to the Revised Charter of the City and County of Honolulu (Honolulu) was approved by the voters of Honolulu that established a semi-autonomous public transit authority officially known as the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit, or HART.  HART is responsible for the planning, construction, operation, maintenance, and expansion of Honolulu's fixed-guideway mass transit system.  In order for HART to provide timely and efficient management of the rail transit system, it needs specific procurement authority to function as a semi-autonomous agency of the county similar to a county board or

department of water supply.  This measure gives HART that authority by making the director of HART the chief procurement officer for that agency.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2011.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 823, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 823, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair

____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair