STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1572-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2872

      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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2872 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow any utility owner whose facility occupies a state highway right-of-way to provide its share of costs up front to the affected state agency for encumbrance of funds in related contracts by way of an agreement to pay.

 

     The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2872, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2872, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair