STAND. COM. REP. NO. 828

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1149

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1149, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DIETITIAN LICENSURE SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove the statutory spending ceiling for the Dietitian Licensure Special Fund and leave the ceiling to be established instead through the state budgeting process.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that providing the flexibility to adjust the spending ceiling for the Dietitian Licensure Special Fund through the state budgeting process will allow the State to meet the needs of the licensure program while reducing reliance on general funds during a time of economic stress.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 1149, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1149, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair