STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1429-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2914

      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. 2914, 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 accountability and transparency with government contracts by requiring any governmental body that enters into a contract that is exempt from the State Procurement Code pursuant to section 103D-102(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to report that contract to the State Procurement Office and Legislature.

 

     The State Procurement Office offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate 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. 2914, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2914, 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