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 S.B. No. 1154 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is required to reimburse the State for state contributions to the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund made for employees whose compensation is paid at least in part from funds other than the general fund.

Your Committee finds that this is a housekeeping measure that makes no substantive changes to existing law. Instead it codifies current understanding and practices of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs with respect to the Health Benefits Trust 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 S.B. No. 1154 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.