STAND. COM. REP. NO.  71-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1654

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1654 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to abolish the Office of Community Services Special Fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and to transfer the unencumbered balance to the general fund.

 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Community Services, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1654 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair