STAND. COM. REP. NO.1421
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 1152
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to repeal certain revolving and special funds and transfer unexpended and unencumbered balances in the repealed funds to the state general fund.
In addition, this measure further directs the Director of Finance to transfer certain amounts in excess of the requirement of existing funds that are not repealed to the state general fund.
Your Committee finds that certain revolving and special funds no longer serve the purpose for which they were established, are not appropriate means of financing programs, or are not financially self-sustaining. This measure repeals the Petroleum Products Control Fund, Hawaii Film Facility Special Fund, Clean Hawaii Fund, Homes Revolving Fund, Hawaii Innovation Development Fund, Statewide Planning and Geographic Information System Special Fund, and Boiler and Elevator Safety Revolving Fund. The Director of Finance is directed to transfer any unexpended and unencumbered balances remaining in these funds to the state general fund.
Your Committee amended this bill by:
(1) Leaving intact the State Disaster Revolving Loan Fund;
(2) Adjusting certain amounts being transferred from existing special or revolving funds to the state general fund;
(3) Repealing sections 201G-341, 201G-343, 201G-344, 201G-345 and 201G-422, Hawaii Revised Statutes, following the repeal of section 201G-342 and 201G-421, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002;
(4) Amending section 328L-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that any excess tobacco settlement moneys provided for the University of Hawaii health and wellness center shall be transferred to: the emergency and budget reserve fund (eighty per cent of the excess); and the Hawaii Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund (twenty per cent of the excess);
(5) Adding a new section to chapter 261, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that: establishes a passenger facility charge special fund, into which shall be deposited all proceeds from any passenger facility charge, to be used for capital improvement projects approved by the Legislature; and exempts the passenger facility charge special fund from sections 36-30 and 103-8.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and
(6) Amending section 502-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide that all moneys in excess of $500,000 in the bureau of conveyances special fund on June 30 of each year shall lapse to the state general fund.
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. 1152, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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