STAND. COM. REP. NO. 655

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 722

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 722, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Accounting and General Services to expand the comprehensive information system established pursuant to Act 54, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, to inventory and maintain information about the public facilities located on lands of the public land trust.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, the Department of Transportation, and one individual

     Your Committee finds that establishing a comprehensive and dynamic information system for public facilities is part of the enterprise resource planning project.  Your Committee further finds that an inventory of public facilities will assist the State in managing its assets and will thereby reduce lost revenue by ensuring that facilities are used to their full potential.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Clarifying that the inventory shall include public buildings, facilities, and sites;

(2)  Inserting an appropriation for unspecified sums for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium to defray costs associated with conducting the inventory;

(3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on the measure; and

(4)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 722, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 722, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair