STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1031-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1709

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1709 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GRANTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the statutory requirement that the Governor notify grant recipients on the status of their grants if grant funds are not released within ninety days of their authorization.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance supported this measure.  Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing expending agencies of grants to delegate their expending authority to a different agency, subject to approval of the grant recipient and the Governor;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Budget and Finance to submit an annual report on the status of awarded and pending grants; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 1709, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1709, H.D. 1, 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair