SB1286 HD1 HSCR919

STAND. COM. REP. 919

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1286

S.D. 1

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 Committees on Economic Development and Business Concerns and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to transfer administrative responsibility for the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) to the Department of Human Services (DHS).

HCDCH, DBEDT, DHS, Department of Human Resources Development, and Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) supported this bill and concurred with HGEA's recommendations to preserve the rights and benefits of employees transferred.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Preserving the rights and benefits of employees transferred by this bill;

(2) Providing for the transfer of functions between agencies including the continuity of rules, policies, procedures, guidelines, and other material;

(3) Providing for the transfer of functions, including the effect on deeds, leases, contracts, loans, agreements, permits, or other documents; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

Your Committees would like to express concerns about the constitutionality of the section dealing with the impairment of federal funds and bonds because it authorizes the Governor to unilaterally modify the bill to effectuate its purpose.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Business Concerns and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Business Concerns and Human Services and Housing,

____________________________ MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair		____________________________ BRIAN SCHATZ, Chair