Bill Text: HI SCR40 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Prompt Payment Task Force; Extended to June 30, 2012

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SCR40 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR40-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1798-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.C.R. No. 40

      S.D. 1

      H.D 1

     

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 40, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE RENAMING OF AND THE EXTENSION OF THE PROMPT PAYMENT TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADDRESS ISSUES THAT AFFECT PROCUREMENT FOR GOODS AND SERVICES PURCHASED THROUGH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING HUMAN SERVICE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT DELIVER PIVOTAL GOODS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, AND OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this measure is to address problems that have arisen in the process of government procurement of goods and services from nonprofit organizations in Hawaii.

 

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Building Industry Association, the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Goodwill Industries of Hawaii, Inc., and the Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations. The State Procurement Office submitted written comments on this measure.

    

     Your Committee has amended the measure to incorporate recommendations of the State Procurement Office, by:

 

     (1)  Replacing "contract" with "planning" on page 3, line 35.

 

     (2)  Adding Department of Accounting and General Services and the Department of the Attorney General on page 3, lines 41-42.

 

     (3)  Replacing "streamline the procurement process" with "streamline the contracting process" on page 4, lines 5-6.

 

     A conforming amendment was made by adding the Attorney General to the list receiving certified copies of this concurrent resolution.

    

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 40, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 40, S.D. 1, H.D. 1. 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair