STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2948

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3373

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3373, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Procurement Office. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services of the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee finds that currently the law is potentially confusing regarding the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies the deadline requirements.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 30, 2075, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3373, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3373, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair