STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1428-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2913

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2913, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that delegated procurement officers and procurement contracting workforce receive increased training by requiring that a mandatory training and development program be completed prior to participating or authorizing any procurement and a mandatory review training every three years thereafter. This measure also requires each chief procurement officer, executive department head, and deputy to attend a mandatory fundamental training within 90 days of being appointed.

The Hawai‘i Procurement Institute supported this measure. The Department of Human Resources Development opposed this measure. The State Procurement Office provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring all department and governmental agencies to track and maintain a record of their employees' training to ensure compliance; and

(2) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2913, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2913, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair