STAND. COM. REP. 2855

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3186

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3186 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES OF PUBLIC FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Attorney General to review and approve, prior to signature, all contracts subject to chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that involve the expending of or contracting to expend public moneys.

The Attorney General is to ensure that each contract shall include provisions that public moneys are:

(1) Expended solely for the purposes of the contract;

(2) Adequately accounted for in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(3) Are subject to an audit by the Auditor; and

(4) Subject to investigation for any irregular expenditures.

This measure also makes an unauthorized expenditure of public moneys the criminal offense of theft.

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. 3186 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