STAND. COM. REP. NO.836

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 637

 

 

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. 637 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MISSING CHILDREN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the Hawaii missing children's clearinghouse trust fund and to transfer the balance in the fund to the Friends of the Missing Child Center Hawaii, a Hawaii nonprofit corporation.

Your Committee finds that the trust fund was created as a separate fund of the Hawaii Justice Foundation, a Hawaii nonprofit organization. However, your Committee finds that potential donors to the fund are under the impression that the fund belongs to the Attorney General. Accordingly, there has reportedly been a reluctance on the part of private donors to contribute to the fund. Moreover, your Committee finds that placing the trust fund within the Hawaii Justice Foundation makes fund operations inefficient from a financial and administrative perspective.

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. 637 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair