Report Title:

State Budget; Allotment Period

Description:

Provides vehicle to change the present quarterly allotment periods.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

583

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 37-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§37-32 [Quarterly]           allotment periods. Except as provided in section 37-41.5, no officer, department or establishment shall expend or be allowed to expend during any fiscal year any sum for any purpose not specifically authorized by the legislature for expenditure during that particular fiscal year, and not made available pursuant to the allotment system provided for in sections 37-31 to 37-41. For the purposes of the allotment system, each fiscal year shall be divided into [four quarterly           allotment periods, beginning, respectively, on the first days of [July, October, January, and April;]          ; provided that in any case where the [quarterly]           allotment period is impracticable, the director of finance may prescribe a different period suited to the circumstances, not exceeding six months nor extending beyond the end of the fiscal year."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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