STAND. COM. REP. NO.1263

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1106

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to enable the Department of Human Services (DHS) to fulfill the requirements of the Felix v. Cayetano consent decree.

DHS and the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the general fund expenditure ceiling provisions;

(2) Adding a new section indicating that funding for fiscal biennium 2001-2003 is dependent upon a demonstrated need and is reflected in the General Appropriations Act of 2001; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style 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 S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 1, 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