STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1433

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 988
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 988, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR
     STATE GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE EFFORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency
appropriation to implement year 2000 compliance efforts.

     This measure appropriates an unspecified amount to allow for
testing, modification, and support of the State's computer system
for year 2000 compliance.  Although funds were appropriated
previously for this project in Act 116, Session Laws of 1998,
unanticipated application modifications, equipment, software, and
services are required to complete the project and allocated funds
are depleted.

     Your Committee recognizes the critical nature of this
project and finds that a funding emergency exists.  Your
Committee has amended this measure by ensuring that any emergency
funds appropriated for the 1998-1999 fiscal year do not lapse at
the end of the 1998-1999 fiscal year, and may be carried over to
fiscal year 1999-2000.


 
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     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 H.B.
No. 988, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
988, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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