STAND. COM. REP. NO.3040

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2840

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2840 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a core government functions advisory commission to ensure that state resources are devoted to core government functions pursuant to the Hawaii state plan and functional plans and to recommend how to improve core government functions.

Testimony opposing this measure was received from the HGEA-AFSCME, Local 152, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee finds that state government has certain core functions, duties, and obligations to its citizens. These have already been outlined in the Hawaii state plan and functional plans. With the recent economic downturns in the state, national, and international economies, governments should examine and reassess their effectiveness and efficiency in fulfilling their core government functions. This measure provides the necessary focused effort to conduct such a review and is a first step toward improving state government.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the language requiring the legislature to vote to accept or reject proposed legislation without amendment from the core government functions advisory commission;

(2) Adding to the members of the commission the respective chairs of the Senate Standing Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legislative Management; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2840, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair