Bill Text: HI SB2257 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electronic Warrant Vouchers; Bill of Materials

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-17 - (H) Act 111, on 5/17/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 325). [SB2257 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2257-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2580

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2257

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2257, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC WARRANT VOUCHERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to enable the Department of Accounting and General Services, the University of Hawaii, and the Department of Education to accept electronically mailed warrant vouchers, bills of materials, and other supporting documents as original documents.

 

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the High Technology Development Corporation.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature’s website.

    

     Your Committee finds that if new state-of-the-art accounting systems are implemented in state agencies in the future, these systems may include options for attaching electronic documents to purchase orders and other contracts for review and authorization.  This measure would enable these agencies to utilize "paperless" documents with valid legal effect and streamline agency operations.

 

Your Committee cautions, however, that in providing flexibility for the Department of Accounting and General Services, the University of Hawaii, and the Department of Education to accept electronically mailed warrant vouchers, it does not intend to cause any department to use overtime to implement these systems.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2099, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2257, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2257, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair