STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1109

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1214

       H.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1214, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent 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 established by Act 174, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State-County Functions Working Group.

     Your Committee finds that the State-County Functions Working Group 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.  Implementation of this measure will support the State-County Functions Working Group in accomplishing its duties and responsibilities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1214, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair