STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 720

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1077

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1077 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OFFICES OF THE GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow for the continued staffing of the Offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Specifically, this bill:

(1) Appropriates $1,000,000 for operational costs of the Office of the Governor; and

(2) Appropriates $141,000 for the operational costs of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

Your Committee received a letter from the Governor dated January 28, 2003:

(1) Stating that funds were needed to enable staffing of the Offices of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor from January 2003 through June 2003;

(2) Requesting appropriations of $1,000,000 for the Office of the Governor and $141,000 for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor for purposes of financing operating expenses of the respective offices; and

(3) Requesting immediate attention to this measure.

The Office of the Governor testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount for the operational costs of the Office of the Governor from $1,000,000, to $508,141;

(2) Changing the appropriation amount for the operational costs of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor from $141,000, to $121,736; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, 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. 1077, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1077, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair