STAND. COM. REP. NO.851

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1354

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1354, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of accumulated moneys in the Tobacco Settlement Special Fund for Department of Human Services children's health programs.

Specifically, this bill makes a one-time appropriation to transfer $6,259,886 from the Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to the Department of Human Services for its children's health programs.

Your Committee was informed by the Department of Human Services that this bill may have an unconstitutional title. Your Committee intends to resolve this problem by inserting the contents of this bill into S.B. No. 585. However, your Committee notes that G.M. No. 186 specifically references this bill, and therefore, your Committee is recommending passage of this bill as a precautionary measure, in case the Legislature does not receive another Governor's message referencing S.B. No. 585.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying that:

(1) The Department of Health is the expending agency for the purpose of the transfer of moneys out of the Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to the Department of Human Services; and

(2) The Legislature is authorizing the Department of Human Services to expend the moneys transferred for fiscal year 2002-2003.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1354, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1354, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair