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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
S.D. 2 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 103D-110, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§103D-110 Education and training. (a) The department of human resources development, either alone or in cooperation with any governmental body, including the department of labor and industrial relations, or in cooperation with other states, the federal government, or other persons may:
(1) Conduct or participate in procurement education and training for persons not employed by the State; and
(2) Sponsor a purchasing certification program conducted by a voluntary organization of procurement professionals.
(b) The state procurement office, in
cooperation with the department of human resources development, shall develop
and maintain a procurement practices training and development program for
procurement officers of [the State and the several counties,] any
governmental body, to ensure that an agency's procurement practices are in
compliance with the procurement code and that proper procurement decisions are
made consistent with this chapter. The program shall include a mandatory
fundamental training and development session that each procurement officer
shall attend prior to participating in or authorizing any procurement and follow-up
training and development sessions[.] that the procurement workforce
of any governmental body shall attend, as determined by the state procurement
office; provided that the state procurement office shall conduct mandatory
follow-up training and development sessions under this subsection at regular
intervals of at least once every twelve months.
[(c) Each state procurement officer of a
department of the executive branch shall attend a mandatory fundamental
training and development session within sixty days of being appointed or named
to the position of procurement officer.
(d)] (c) Each state procurement
officer of a department of the executive branch whom the state procurement
office determines is in need of further training and development based upon:
(1) The history of procurement compliance to this chapter by the agency to which the particular procurement officer is attached; or
(2) Any other need for training and development,
shall attend follow-up training and development
sessions[.] in addition to any follow-up training and development
session required under subsection (b).
[(e)] (d) Attendance by state and
county procurement officers at the follow-up training and development
sessions[, other than as required under subsection (d), and by county
procurement officials at the fundamental and follow-up training and development
sessions is optional, though encouraged.] shall be mandatory. A
procurement officer who is unable to attend a follow-up or development session
shall first receive, in writing, permission from the state procurement office
to be excused from the session.
(e) By December 31 of each year, the chief procurement officer, or the officer's designee, of each jurisdiction shall submit, in the form and manner prescribed by the state procurement office, a list of the jurisdiction's procurement officers and which procurement officers, if any, have failed to comply with this section; provided that a procurement officer who fails to submit the officer's name and evidence of training compliance to the state procurement office shall no longer have the authority to procure."
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016-2017 to implement training for the procurement workforce of the State.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the state procurement office for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2016.
Report Title:
Procurement Officers; Education and Training; Appropriation
Description:
Requires every government procurement officer to attend initial training by the state procurement office and the procurement workforce of any governmental body to attend follow-up training as determined by the state procurement office. Requires the chief procurement officer to submit a list of the jurisdiction's procurement officers and which procurement officers, if any, have failed to comply with training requirements; provided that a procurement officer who fails to submit the officer's name and evidence of training compliance to the State Procurement Office shall no longer have the authority to procure. Appropriates funds to the state procurement office. (SD2)
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