STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2841

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2551
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Ways and Means and Health and Human
Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2551, H.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CORRECTION OF THE
     APPLICABLE FISCAL YEAR FOR THE APPROPRIATION TO BE EXPENDED
     BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN SECTION 6 OF ACT 304, SESSION
     LAWS OF HAWAII 1999,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to correct a defective fiscal
year reference to permit funds already appropriated from the
tobacco settlement special fund for the Department of Health to
be expended for this fiscal year.

     Your Committees find that Act 304, Session Laws of Hawaii
1999, intended to make two appropriations, one for fiscal year
1999-2000, and another for fiscal year 2000-2001.  However, there
was a typographical error in the reference to the first fiscal
year, causing the appropriation to be made for the fiscal
biennium, 1999-2001, instead.  The Governor has requested that
the typographical error be fixed to allow the Department of
Health to expend the funds immediately to allow the Department to
provide much needed health services to the public.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committees on Ways and Means and Health and Human Services that
is attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with

 
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the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2551, H.D. 1, and recommend
that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for
Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Ways and Means
                                   and Health and Human Services,



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair        CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                   ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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