STAND. COM. REP. NO.  25-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2178

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2178 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent Hawaii Public Procurement Code exemptions relating to certain sole source vendors and to small purchases.

The Department of Budget and Fiscal Services of the City and County of Honolulu offered testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2178, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2178, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair