STAND. COM. REP. NO.2996

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2639

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2639, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service within the Department of Human Services to replace the Commission created by Executive Order 94-01, and to transfer the functions and programs. Funds are appropriated to be used as state matching funds to secure federal moneys for the Commission.

Your Committees received testimony supporting this measure from the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service, and Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees find that the current Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service has been instrumental in developing our local communities through community service and volunteer participation as a means of community and State problem-solving.

Your Committees have amended this measure in the following ways:

(1) Establishing the Commission within the University of Hawaii rather than the Department of Human Services;

(2) Deleting the transfer of "appropriations" and "maps" "used" or "held" by the Commission;

(3) Leaving blank the dollar amount of the appropriation;

(4) Changing the expending agency to the University of Hawaii; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to reflect preferred drafting style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2639, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2639, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

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DAVID MATSUURA, Chair