STAND. COM. REP. NO. 646-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2024
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2024, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE
     LEGISLATIVE AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to
legislative agencies to fund retroactive salary increases and
other cost adjustments in the Legislature for fiscal year 1998-
1999.

     The Office of the Auditor, Hawaii State Ethics Commission,
the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the Office of the Ombudsman
testified in support of this bill.

     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.
2024, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
placed on the calendar for Third Reading.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair