STAND. COM. REP. NO.  767

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1214

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1214 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE-COUNTY FUNCTIONS WORKING GROUP,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of the Auditor to carry out the purposes of the State-County Functions Working Group that was established by Act 174, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to evaluate the division of duties and responsibilities between the State and the counties relating to the provision of public services.

The State-County Functions Working Group testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to an unspecified amount to promote continued discussion; and

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity.  

     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 H.B. No. 1214, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1214, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair