STAND. COM. REP. NO.  695-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 3038

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 3038 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTRICITY PAYMENTS STATEWIDE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate emergency funding to the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) to address increases in electricity rates.

 

     This bill appropriates $1,000,000 in general funds for fiscal year 2007-2008 to pay electricity bills for DAGS-managed facilities statewide.

 

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in her Governor's Message No. 238 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature citing an existing critical funding shortage.

 

     DAGS testified in support of this bill.

 

     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. 3038 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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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair