Bill Text: HI HB861 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Elections; Procurement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB861 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB861-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  736

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 861

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 861 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the voting process in elections by exempting the Office of Elections (OE) from certain procurement code and administrative rules requirements relating to cost pricing analyses.

 

     OE testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Accounting and General Services, State Procurement Office, and a concerned individual testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 861, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 861, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair