STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO.2718

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2964

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 S.B. No. 2964, S.D. 1, 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 measure is to statutorily establish the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service.

This bill places the Commission within the University of Hawaii.

The Commission was created by Executive Order 94-01 and was placed in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for administrative purposes. Hawaii is required to have the Commission in order to receive federal funds through the Corporation for National Service for the AmeriCorps national service program, as part of the National and Community Service Act of 1993.

Your Committee finds that this bill gives the Commission a permanent home, inasmuch as an executive order is necessarily temporary in nature in accordance with section 26-41, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the creation of temporary boards and commissions by the Governor.

Your Committee has amended this bill as follows:

(1) In section 2 of the bill, by providing for the transfer of one, rather than three positions from the existing Commission to the new one;

(2) In section 3 of the bill, by deleting the words "appropriations," "maps," "used," and "or held" relating to the transfer of records and equipment to the new Commission;

(3) In section 8 of the bill, by clarifying that any federal funds received for the Commission are to be transferred to the University of Hawaii; and

(4) In section 7, by changing the appropriated amount to a blank amount for purposes of promoting further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 2964, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2964, S.D. 2.

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

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair