STAND. COM. REP. NO.1033

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1077

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1077, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OFFICES OF THE GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Office of the Governor and the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to operate through June 30, 2003.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor.

Your Committee finds that the Legislature, during the 2002 Regular Session, did not provide full funding for the Governor's and Lieutenant Governor's offices for the last two quarters of fiscal year 2002-2003.

Your Committee further finds that the requested appropriations are required to enable our State's two highest executive officers to properly exercise statewide statutory and constitutional obligations.

Without the resources contained in this measure, your Committee finds that Governor and Lieutenant Governor may not be able to ensure the proper implementation of state programs and services provided to the public.

Your Committee amended this measure to increase the appropriation levels to $838,136 for the Governor and $141,000 for the Lieutenant Governor.

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. 1077, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1077, H.D. 1, 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