STAND. COM. REP. NO.  964

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1229

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1229, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the efficiency of the public procurement construction bid process by requiring only bids for contracts with certain total estimated values to list subcontractors and joint contractors.

The General Contractors Association of Hawaii; Healy Tibbitts Builders, Inc.; Tom's Backhoe & Excavation Co., Inc.; Nordic PCL Construction, Inc.; S&M Sakamoto, Inc.; Alan Shintani, Inc.; Ralph S. Inouye Co, Ltd; Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company; PVT Land Company; TOMCO Corp.; Layton Construction Company, LLC; LYZ, Inc.; Jayar Construction, Inc.; BIA-Hawaii; and Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization Fund supported this measure.  The State Procurement Office, Department of Transportation, Department of Accounting and General Services, Subcontractors Association of Hawaii, Ironworkers Stabilization Fund, Sheet Metal Contractors Association, Electrical Contractors Association of Hawaii, and Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Association of Hawaii opposed this measure.

     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. 1229, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair