STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2554

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3102

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3102, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that state agencies implement inter-agency agreements without entering into a memorandum of agreement or memorandum of understanding.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

Your Committee finds that inter-agency agreements provide agencies with an opportunity to coordinate resources and eliminate duplication, without entering into a memorandum of agreement or memorandum of understanding.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will provide for a uniform and expedited agreement process between state agencies.

     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. 3102, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair