STAND. COM. REP. NO.  950

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1226

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1226 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTRICITY PAYMENTS STATEWIDE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate emergency funding for electricity payments for the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) managed facilities statewide.

 

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in her Governor's Message No. 230 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature citing an existing critical funding shortage.

 

     This bill appropriates $626,000 for fiscal year 2006-2007, to be expended by DAGS.

 

     DAGS supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by adding a new section which provides the reasons why and the amount and rate by which the appropriation contained in this bill exceeds the state spending limit to comply with statutory and constitutional requirements.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1226, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1226, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair