STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2774

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2323

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEDERAL REVENUE MAXIMIZATION IN THE JUDICIARY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Judiciary to establish and implement a federal revenue maximization program for services provided to the children under the jurisdiction of the District and Family Courts who may be eligible for federal financial participation.

Your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that the State will receive the maximum possible federal funds for services provided by the Judiciary to children under the care of the State's District and Family Courts.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying at page 6, line 14 that the report shall describe the amount of additional federal funding received;

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2060, to facilitate further discussion; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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 S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2323, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair