STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1160-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2115

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2115, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREAUDITS FOR PROPOSED PAYMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct proposed payment preaudits only on payments of $10,000 or more;

 

     (2)  Require the University of Hawaii (UH) and DOE to preaudit a sample of at least five percent of proposed payments of less than $10,000; and

 

     (3)  Extend the fiscal autonomy previously granted to UH and DOE until June 30, 2020.

 

     DOE testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010.
     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. 2115, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2115, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair