Bill Text: HI SB998 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Washington Place

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-22 - 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 McKelvey, Takumi, Woodson excused (3). [SB998 Detail]

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THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

998

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO WASHINGTON PLACE.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 26-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§26-6  Department of accounting and general services.  (a)  The department of accounting and general services shall be headed by a single executive to be known as the comptroller.

     (b)  The department shall:

     (1)  Preaudit and conduct after-the-fact audits of the financial accounts of all state departments to determine the legality of expenditures and the accuracy of accounts;

     (2)  Report to the governor and to each regular session of the legislature as to the finances of each department of the State;

     (3)  Administer the state risk management program;

     (4)  Establish and manage motor pools;

     (5)  Manage the preservation and disposal of all records of the State;

     (6)  Undertake the program of centralized engineering and office leasing services, including operation and maintenance of public buildings, for departments of the State;

     (7)  Undertake the functions of the state surveyor;

     (8)  Establish accounting and internal control systems;

     (9)  Provide centralized computer information management and processing services, coordination in the use of all information processing equipment, software, facilities, and services in the executive branch of the State, and consultation and support services in the use of information processing and management technologies to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity of state government programs; and

    (10)  Establish, coordinate, and manage a program to provide a means for public access to public information and develop and operate an information network in conjunction with its overall plans for establishing a communication backbone for state government.

     (c)  The state communication system shall be established to:

     (1)  Facilitate implementation of the State's distributed information processing and information resource management plans;

     (2)  Improve data, voice, and video communications in state government;

     (3)  Provide a means for connectivity among the state, university, and county computer systems; and

     (4)  Provide a long-term means for public access to public information.

     (d)  The department may adopt rules as may be necessary or desirable for the operation and maintenance of public buildings, and for the operation and implementation of a program to provide a means for public access to the State's information network system and public information.  The rules shall be adopted pursuant to chapter 91.

     (e)  The King Kamehameha celebration commission shall be placed within the department of accounting and general services for administrative purposes.  The functions, duties, and powers, subject to the administrative control of the comptroller, and the composition of the commission shall be as heretofore provided by law.

     (f)  The functions and authority heretofore exercised by the comptroller, board of commissioners of public archives, the archivist, the disposal committee, and the insurance management, surplus property management, and central purchasing functions of the bureau of the budget and the nonhighway functions of the department of public works as heretofore constituted are transferred to the department of accounting and general services established by this chapter.

     (g)  The department of accounting and general services is authorized, and shall be responsible for preserving and protecting Washington Place, including the grounds, and the historic residence situated on its premises at Miller and Beretania streets in Honolulu.  The department shall administer, manage, operate, and maintain Washington Place, and the trust fund created herein, for that purpose.  There is established as a separate trust fund in the treasury, the Washington Place trust fund, into which shall be deposited all rents and fees collected for the use of Washington Place and from activities conducted on the premises, and all other money donated or received from all other sources, including income and interest earned therefrom.  All money deposited in the trust fund shall be expended by the department and used exclusively to implement the provisions of this subsection including staff salaries and fringe benefits, and shall not be transferred, nor subject to transfer to the general fund or any other fund in the state treasury."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST


 


 

Report Title:

Washington Place

 

Description:

Designates the Department of Accounting and General Services as the entity responsible for management and operations of Washington Place and establishes a trust fund for its operations.

 

 

 

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