STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2983

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 1654

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, 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 and intent of this measure is to abolish the office of community services special fund.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the office of community services special fund is an administratively created fund within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations which is no longer used or needed.  The Auditor found in Auditor's Report No. 17-12, which reviewed special funds, revolving funds, trust funds, and trust accounts of the State, that the office of community services special fund does not meet the criteria for continuance as a special fund, and therefore recommended that the special fund be abolished and the remaining unencumbered balance be transferred to the general fund.  This measure enacts the recommendations of the Auditor.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor 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 Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair