STAND. COM. REP. NO.  583

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 707

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. 707 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal and abolish the following non-general funds and accounts per recommendations made by the Auditor in Report Nos. 14-04 and 14-13:

     (1)  Cancer Detection Development Revolving Fund;

     (2)  Hawaii Criminal Justice Commission Trust Account;

     (3)  Preservation of Endangered Plants Trust Account; and

     (4)  State DOD Physical Amelioration Donation Trust Fund.

The Office of the Auditor; Department of Defense; and Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii submitted comments on this measure.

     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. 707 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair