Bill Text: HI HB2432 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Procurement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and C. Lee, M. Lee excused (2). [HB2432 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2432-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  340-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2432

      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 Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2432 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROCUREMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt the purchase of fresh meats, produce, animals, and plants by any governmental body from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code.  

 

     The State Procurement Office, Department of Agriculture, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  Big Island Farm Bureau and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2432, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2432, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business,

 

 

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair