STAND. COM. REP. NO 914

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 155

       H.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 155, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAILUKU STATE OFFICE MASTER PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop a comprehensive Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and the old courthouse building;

     (2)  Require the Department of Accounting and General Services to submit the Wailuku state office master plan to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2016; and

     (3)  Appropriate an unspecified sum to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the Wailuku state office master plan.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will assist in analyzing the efficient use of the existing facilities and also addressing the shortage of office space in Wailuku and funding efforts to revamp the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building to reduce the shortage of office space.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 155, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair