STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2428

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2495

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Government Operations and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2495 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require:

     (1)  Every government procurement officer to attend initial training by the State Procurement Office within sixty days of being appointed or named to the position of procurement officer;

     (2)  Every government procurement officer or the officer's designee to attend follow-up training and development sessions, as determined by the State Procurement Office; provided that a procurement officer who is unable to attend a follow-up or development session may be excused by the State Procurement Office; and

     (3)  The State Procurement Office to conduct mandatory follow-up training and development sessions at regular intervals of at least once every twelve months.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Procurement Office.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

     Your Committees find that a strong training program for the State's procurement officers is an essential component in the delivery of procurement knowledge and skills.  Implementation of this measure will ensure more effective and efficient procurements and allow the State to develop a more proficient workforce of procurement professionals who expend public funds in a manner that is compliant with applicable statutes, rules, and policies.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring the chief procurement officer, or the officer's designee, of each jurisdiction to annually 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 training requirements; and

     (2)  Prohibiting procurement by a procurement officer who fails to submit their name and evidence of training compliance to the State Procurement Office.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2495, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2495, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair