STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2208

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2913

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Government Operations and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2913 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require all government procurement officers to attend a training and development program prior to participating in or authorizing any procurement;

(2) Require all government procurement officers to complete review training every three years;

(3) Require all procurement officers, department heads, and their deputies, except for the administrator, to attend mandatory procurement training within ninety days of appointment; and

(4) Appropriate funds to update training modules and implement the training for the procurement workforce of the State.

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 those in the State's procurement workforce often lack proper training and education in the State's procurement code. Your Committees find that existing law needs to be clarified so that all individuals involved in the procurement process are required to receive proper training on the procurement code. In addition, your Committees find the field of procurement is varied, complex, and changes often. Therefore, your Committees find that procurement training should be ongoing and that individuals involved with procurement should regularly update their training to stay current on their knowledge of the Code. Moreover, your Committees find that there is often a significant lag in time from when the officer is first appointed and when they receive procurement code training. Therefore, your Committees find that time period to receive training should be definite and immediate.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2913 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 Labor,

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair