STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO.3288

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2840

S.D. 2

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that scarce state resources are devoted to core government functions as specified in the Hawaii state plan and functional plans, and to provide a mechanism by which all state government programs may be classified according to whether they implement core government functions.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Establishes within the Legislature, for administrative purposes, a temporary commission to be known as the core government functions advisory commission;

(2) Specifies that the purposes of the advisory commission are to:

(A) Determine whether and to what extent state programs implement core government functions as specified in the Hawaii state plan and functional plans; and

(B) Recommend how core government functions can be improved through the elimination, reorganization, or improvement of programs deemed non-core programs or the redistribution of their resources, or both;

(3) Requires the advisory commission to be composed of fifteen members selected as follows:

(A) One each to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and each of the mayors of the respective counties; and four to be appointed by the Governor;

(B) The Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations; and

(4) Requires the advisory commission to:

(A) Submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2003; and

(B) Propose legislation to eliminate, reorganize, or improve designated programs or redistribute their resources, or both, in order to reduce the state operating budget for fiscal biennium 2003-2005;

and

(5) Appropriates an unspecified sum to the Legislature in order to carry out the purposes of the advisory commission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Appropriating the sum of $1 to the Legislature in order to carry out the purposes of the advisory commission; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, in order to continue discussions on certain matters.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2840, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2840, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair