STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1551

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 1079

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to convene an Asset Management Task Force (Task Force) to develop:

(1) A maintenance and replacement schedule for repairs and replacement of state-owned facilities; and

(2) Consistent criteria and standardized methodology for identifying maintenance projects and priorities and addressing the deferred maintenance backlog of state-owned buildings, facilities, and other improvements.

The Judiciary, Department of Education, and Hawaii State Public Library System testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Establishing the Task Force within the Office of the Governor rather than the Office of the Lieutenant Governor;

(2) Changing the composition of the Task Force as follows:

(A) Including the Governor's Administrative Director rather than the Lieutenant Governor's Chief of Staff on the Task Force;

(B) Adding the Administrator of the State Procurement Office to the Task Force; and

(C) Removing the Chief Executive Officer of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation from the Task Force;

(3) Specifying that the private sector representatives appointed to the Task Force are to have experience in construction;

(4) Making the appropriation amounts unspecified; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

Should this measure be heard by the Committee on Finance, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $250,000 for each year of the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 for the Task Force to develop plans to address deferred maintenance projects in the State pursuant to this measure.

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. 1079, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 2, 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