STAND. COM. REP. NO.  10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1465

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1465 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, THE OMBUDSMAN, AND THE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the legislative branch of state government.  Specifically, this bill:

 

     (1)  Appropriates $8,776,876 to the Senate;

 

     (2)  Appropriates $12,022,114 to the House of Representatives;

 

     (3)  Appropriates $2,947,349 to the Office of the Auditor;

 

     (4)  Appropriates $2,800,000 for deposit into the Audit Revolving Fund;

 

     (5)  Appropriates $6,300,000 from the Audit Revolving Fund to the Office of the Auditor to conduct or complete its audit functions;

 

     (6)  Appropriates $3,440,969 to the Legislative Reference Bureau;

    

     (7)  Appropriates $1,216,170 to the Office of the Ombudsman; and

 

     (8)  Appropriates $1,008,895 to the State Ethics Commission.

 

     The Office of the Auditor, Office of the Ombudsman, Hawaii State Ethics Commission, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Legislative Reference Bureau provided comments.

 

     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. 1465 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair