STAND. COM. REP. NO.  896-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2018

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2018 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT PROCESSES AND SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish guidelines for the management of capital improvement projects based on the recommendations of the Office of the Auditor in Report No. 15-13, Study of State Departmental Engineering Sections That Manage Capital Improvement Projects.

The Office of the Auditor and Department of Accounting and General Services testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Transportation provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  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 H.B. No. 2018, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2018, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair