Report Title:

State Budget

 

Description:

Makes technical amendment to budget allotment modification law.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

163

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to the state budget.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 37-36, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  Prior to the implementation of any modification in allotment proposed by the director of finance pursuant to subsection (a)[,] in which the sum of the modifications exceed 2.5 per cent of the total general fund appropriation made by the legislature in any fiscal year, the director shall notify the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairpersons of the senate committee on ways and means and the house of representatives committee on finance, respectively, of the director's intent."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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