Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1860 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow taxpayers to designate $5 of state income tax refunds for any taxable year to the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund (HCTF), Domestic Violence Prevention Special Fund, and the respective Spouse and Child Abuse Special Accounts under the Departments of Health and Human Services and the Judiciary.

HCTF, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, National Association of Social Workers, Blueprint for Change, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Molokai Family Support Center, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Department of Taxation opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1860, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1860, H.D. 1.