STAND. COM. REP. NO.631-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2639

H.D. 1

 

 

 

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. 2639 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote citizen involvement in the community, in government, and in private programs throughout the state by:

(1) Establishing the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service (Commission); and

(2) Appropriating funds to be used as state matching funds to secure federal monies for the establishment of the Commission.

The Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service and University of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Education and the Department of Human Services submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1; and

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

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. 2639, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2639, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair