STAND. COM. REP. NO. 167

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 148





Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was
referred H.B. No. 148 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF
     THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate the funds
necessary to support the Office of the Legislative Analyst.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii is the only state in the
nation in which the legislature relies on the executive branch to
temporarily loan staff to support the work of the money
committees.

     Ensuring that approved appropriations are executed in
compliance with legislative policy, should be the function of a
nonpartisan fiscal analysis office in conjunction with the
professional staffs of the legislative money committees.

     For these reasons, your Committee finds that the provisions
of Act 347 of 1990 should be fully implemented so that the Office
of the Legislative Analyst can be fully established.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 148 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Finance.

 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Legislative
                                   Management,



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                                   EZRA KANOHO, Chair