STAND. COM. REP. NO.826

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 585

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 585 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the provision that requires that allotments be made according to the classification prescribed in appropriations.

Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its contents and replacing it with the contents of S.B. No. 1354, S.D. 1, which clarifies the purpose for the use of the Tobacco Settlement moneys for the Department of Human Services to fund its children's health programs. As amended, the bill appropriates the unexpended, accumulated funds, amounting to $6,259,886, from the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to be expended by the Department of Human Services to fund the children's health programs for fiscal year 2002-2003.

Your Committee has also amended the bill to have it take effect on July 1, 2015 for the purpose of promoting further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 585, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 585, 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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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair