STAND. COM. REP. NO. 763

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 105
                                        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 S.B.
No. 105 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REFORM OF STATE GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a six-member
advisory commission on government restructuring to assist in
streamlining the size of government.

     Your Committee finds that the Legislature has a history of
concern with the size of state government, studying the issue in
the 1970s and 1990s, and passing legislation in 1996
acknowledging that this was a joint concern of the Legislature
and the Governor.  In response to that Act, the Governor released
a report, "Restructuring Government Services" in December 1996.
Your Committee finds that was an important effort but did not
fully accomplish its goals, and that more work needs to be done
in this area.

     To effectuate the goals of the bill, your Committee has
amended it by:

     (1)  Changing the advisory committee to a joint legislative
          task force;


 
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     (2)  Requiring the task force to solicit input on the roles
          of the departments and making recommendations to the
          Governor, rather than the Legislature, to implement
          ideas on streamlining; and

     (3)  By making the amount of the appropriation blank, and
          creating two separate appropriation provisions, each
          subject to the control of one of the presiding officers
          of each house.

     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.
105, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 105, S.D. 1.

                                 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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