STAND. COM. REP. 1442

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 637

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 637, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MISSING CHILDREN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the Hawaii Missing Children's Clearinghouse Trust Fund and transfer the balance to the Friends of the Missing Child Center Hawaii, a Hawaii nonprofit corporation.

The Hawaii Missing Children's Clearinghouse Trust Fund Board of Directors and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Attorney General and Hawaii Justice Foundation submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2004; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 637, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 637, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair