STAND. COM. REP. NO. 47

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 823

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 823 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Designate as the chief procurement officer the director of a county semi-autonomous public transit agency as designated by that county charter; and

     (2)  Provide procurement authority to the semi-autonomous county public transit agency.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from one county department and one labor organization.

     On November 2, 2010, the voters of the City and County of Honolulu approved an amendment to the Revised Charter of the City and County of Honolulu to establish a semi-autonomous public transit authority which is responsible for the planning, construction, operation, maintenance, and expansion of Honolulu's fixed guideway mass transit system.  That transit authority, officially known as the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit, will provide timely and efficient management of the rail transit system.  This measure gives the same procurement authority to the county semi-autonomous public transit agency as a county board or department of water supply.

     Your Committees find that the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit needs specific procurement authority to function as a semi-autonomous agency of the county.  It is not the intent of this measure to nullify any existing procurement authority of any other state or county semi-autonomous agencies, boards, or commissions.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 823 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs,

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair