STAND. COM. REP. 2152

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2152

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2152 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOBACCO SETTLEMENT SPECIAL FUND,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund from the assessment of central services and administrative expenses.

Testimony received in support of this measure was received from the American Heart Association and the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii. Comments were received from the Department of Health.

Your Committees find that restoring the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund's exemption from administrative fees would save the fund moneys that would be used on tobacco prevention and health issues.

Your Committees amended this measure to reflect the appropriate version of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2152, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2152, 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,

____________________________

SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

____________________________

ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair