STAND. COM. REP. NO.650-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1821

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1821, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide the Office of the Auditor with sufficient funds to conduct financial audits.

Specifically this bill:

(1) Appropriates $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2002-2003 to conduct financial audits of the Department of Education (DOE), Department of Health (DOH), and Department of Human Services (DHS); and

(2) Appropriates $3,700,000 for fiscal year 2002-2003 to conduct financial audits of other state agencies.

The Office of the Auditor testified in support of this measure. DHS, DOH, and the Department of Accounting and General Services testified in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 1821, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1821, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair