Report Title:

Procurement; Mandatory Training

Description:

Coordinates responsibility for procurement training from the department of human resources development to state procurement office; provides that initial training is to be mandatory for all state procurement officers and thereafter follow-up sessions for those officers as determined by the state procurement office to be in need of training based upon the history of compliance with the governmental body to which the procurement officer is attached, or as otherwise selected for attendance for any reason by the state procurement office.  Attendance for other state procurement officers at follow-up sessions and for county procurement officers at all sessions is encouraged.  Eff. 1/1/2009.  (CD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2826
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		S.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 1
		C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 103D-110, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§103D-110  Education and training. (a)  The department of human resources development, either alone or in cooperation with any governmental body, including the department of labor and industrial relations, or in cooperation with other states, the federal government, or other persons may:

    [(1) Develop and maintain a comprehensive training and development program for procurement professionals of the State and the several counties;

(2)] (1)  Conduct or participate in procurement education and training for persons not employed by the State; and

    [(3)] (2)  Sponsor a purchasing certification program conducted by a voluntary organization of procurement professionals.

(b)  The state procurement office, in cooperation with the department of human resources development, shall develop and maintain a procurement practices training and development program for procurement officers of the State and the several counties, to ensure that an agency's procurement practices are in compliance with the procurement code and that proper procurement decisions are made consistent with this chapter.  The program shall include a mandatory fundamental training and development session and follow-up training and development sessions.

(c)  Each state procurement officer of a department of the executive branch shall attend a mandatory fundamental training and development session within sixty days of being appointed or named to the position of procurement officer.

(d)  Each state procurement officer of a department of the executive branch whom the state procurement office determines is in need of further training and development based upon:

(1) The history of procurement compliance to this chapter by the agency to which the particular procurement officer is attached; or

(2) Any other need for training and development,

shall attend follow-up training and development sessions.

(e)  Attendance by state procurement officers at the follow-up training and development sessions, other than as required under subsection (d), and by county procurement officials at the fundamental and follow-up training and development sessions is optional, though encouraged."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2009.