STAND. COM. REP. NO. 676-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2743

H.D. 2

 

 

 

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. 2743, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to

(1) Transfer various amounts from various non-general funds to the general fund; and

(2) Provide for the automatic transfer of certain funds at the end of the fiscal year.

The Tax Foundation of Hawaii commented on this bill. The Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Human Resources Development, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Health, Board of Agriculture, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Department of Public Safety, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Hawaii Community Development Authority, and Hawaii Farm Bureau opposed various provisions of the bill transferring moneys out of certain funds.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amounts of funding the Director of Finance is authorized to transfer to the general fund as follows:

(A) From $1,000,000 to $900,000 from the Agriculture Loan Reserve Fund;

(B) From $500,000 to $300,000 from the Medicaid Investigations Recovery Fund;

(C) From $200,000 to $300,000 from the State Identification Revolving Fund;

(D) From $500,000 to $400,000 from the Foreign Trade Zones Special Fund;

(E) From $1,000,000 to $200,000 from the Research Subaccount of the Tourism Special Fund;

(F) From $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 from the Environmental Management Special Fund; and

(G) From $3,000,000 to $2,000,000 from the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Special Fund;

(2) Deleting language authorizing the Director of Finance to transfer funds from Commercial Fisheries Special Fund and Na Ala Hele (Hawaii Statewide Trail and Access Program) into the general fund;

(3) Changing the ceiling limit for moneys in the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund to automatically transfer to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year to $500,000; and

(4) Deleting language changing the ceiling limit for moneys in the Environmental Health Education Fund that triggers an automatic transfer to the general fund; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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. 2743, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2743,

H.D. 2, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair