STAND. COM. REP. NO.694

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1245

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1245 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enhance the public's understanding of the State's funding priorities by requiring the inclusion of budget summaries of the proposed executive state budget as it moves through the legislative process.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the requirement that the budget summaries be published in a newspaper of general circulation;

(2) Directing the Department of Budget and Finance to include a summary of the proposed executive budget when it is submitted by the Governor to the Legislature; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, 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. 1245, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1245, 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