STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2

                                Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                  , 1999

                                RE:  H.B. No. 85
                                     H.D. 1
                                     S.D. 1



Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

   Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 85, H.D. 1, entitled: 

   "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE
   EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR, THE
   LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, AND THE OMBUDSMAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

   The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to provide
for the expenses of the legislature, the auditor, the legislative
reference bureau, the ombudsman, and the state ethics commission
during the 1999 regular session and through the remainder of the
1999-2000 fiscal year.

   Your Committee finds that the legislative budget proposed by
this bill is the same budget proposed last year.  Considering the
austere and tentative nature of economic and revenue projections
currently forecast for the State, it is incumbent upon the
legislature to proceed cautiously with all budget proposals,
including its own.  Therefore, this bill reflects your
Committee's philosophy of cautious optimism with respect to
constructing a budgetary plan for the State in the next two
years.

   Testimony was submitted in favor of this bill by the Hawaii
State Ethics Commission, the Office of the Ombudsman, and Common
Cause Hawaii.

 
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   Your Committee has amended the bill by clarifying the
appropriation made in section 10 for the legislative broadcast
program with respect to the effective date, expending agency and
lapsing date.

   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 H.B.
No. 85, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 85,
H.D. l, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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



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                              CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                              ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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