STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1724

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 713

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 713, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support the Emergency Environmental Workforce Program (Program) by:

 

     (1)  Updating the purpose and employment provisions of the Program; and

 

     (2)  Appropriating general funds for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 to continue the Program.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations opposed this measure.  The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  In lieu of the general fund appropriation, providing an appropriation for fiscal year 2009-2010 out of federal funds received by the State from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and any other applicable federal Acts;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency. 

 

     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. 713, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 713, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair