STAND. COM. REP. NO. 534-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2551
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2551 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORRECTION OF THE
     APPLICABLE FISCAL YEAR FOR THE APPROPRIATION TO BE EXPENDED
     BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN SECTION 6 OF ACT 304, SESSION
     LAWS OF HAWAII 1999,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of
Health immediate access to funds allocated from the Hawaii
Tobacco Settlement Special Fund through Act 304, Session Laws of
Hawaii 1999, and intended for use in fiscal year 1999-2000.

     Your Committee has received a letter from the Governor dated
February 2, 2000:

     (1)  Stating that the correction of the defective fiscal
          year reference from 1999-2001 to 1999-2000 will make it
          possible for the Department of Health to begin
          immediately to provide expanded preventive health and
          health promotion programs to our Hawaii citizens; and

     (2)  Requesting immediate passage of this measure.

     Testimony is support of this bill was submitted by the
Department of Health and the Coalition For A Tobacco Free Hawaii.
 

 
 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and style. 

     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.
2551, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2551, 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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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair