STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3459

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2415

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2415 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal, reclassify, or abolish non-general funds.

 

Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Repeals the Kapolei recreational sports complex special fund;

 

     (2)  Reclassifies the prepaid airport use charge fund from a special fund to a trust fund; and

 

     (3)  Abolishes the photo enforcement revolving fund.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Office of the Auditor, and Stadium Authority.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that in 2002, the land originally identified for the Kapolei recreational sports complex was transferred to the University of Hawaii-West Oahu for use other than as a sports complex.  Accordingly, the purpose for which the Kapolei recreational sports complex special fund was intended no longer exists, and the special fund should be repealed.  Your Committee further finds that the prepaid airport use charge fund is more appropriately classified as a trust fund rather than a special fund.  In addition, the photo enforcement revolving fund is inactive and should be abolished.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making conforming amendments to repeal other references in the Hawaii Revised Statutes to the Kapolei recreational sports complex.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2415, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2415, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair