Report Title:

Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund; Appropriations

 

Description:

Appropriates moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund (rainy day fund) to maintain levels of programs that are essential to the public health, safety, and welfare. (HB1245 CD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1245

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1


C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that expenditures from the emergency and budget reserve fund established by section 328L-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are needed to meet the emergency economic situation currently facing the State. The legislature determines that the moneys are urgently needed to maintain levels of programs that are essential to the public health, safety, and welfare. The legislature further finds that the appropriations in this Act are consistent with the purposes of the emergency and budget reserve fund.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate $10,431,294 from the emergency and budget reserve fund to maintain levels of programs that are essential to the public health, safety, and welfare.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for a grant to Hawaii Intergenerational Network for program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $242,499 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for a grant to Parents and Children Together for program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $300,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for a grant to Good Beginnings Alliance for program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $421,161 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for a grant to Blueprint for Change for program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 6. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $400,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for a grant to Wahiawa General Hospital for program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 7. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $500,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for oral health (dental sealant and dental hygiene) program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 8. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $500,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for the pre-school open doors program.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 9. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $300,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for the tobacco prevention and cessation program.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 10. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $2,192,698 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for substance abuse treatment program expenses.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 11. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $2,535,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for program expenses of rural hospitals.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 12. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $1,650,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for program expenses relating to the medically uninsured.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 13. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $1,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for program expenses relating to the homeless.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 14. There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund the sum of $339,936 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003 for rent supplement payments.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 15. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.