STAND. COM. REP. NO. 309

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 719

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Government Operations and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 719 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEFERRED MAINTENANCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Governor to prepare a deferred maintenance plan to gradually eliminate the deferred maintenance costs of state-owned buildings, facilities, and other improvements; submit an initial plan to the Legislature for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 and prepare annual updates thereafter; and to impose the same requirements on the Chief Justice for buildings, facilities, and other improvements owned by the Judiciary.

     Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Judiciary.

     Your Committees find that the extent of deferred maintenance backlog of state buildings, facilities, and other improvements is substantial.  Your Committees further find that a deferred maintenance plan is necessary to preserve these buildings, facilities, and other improvements for public use in the most economically efficient and transparent manner possible.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 719 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Judiciary and Labor,

________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair