Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Ways and Means and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2077, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require state agencies to prepare and update state plans every ten years, beginning June 30, 2005.

Your Committees find that state agency planning provides the direction and strategies for departmental policies, programs, and priorities, and guides the allocation of financial resources to carry out various state activities. To promote efficiency, the measure allows the state agency responsible for updating a functional plan to incorporate, if practicable, the findings and recommendations of any planning document produced by a state agency within the five years preceding the instant functional plan update.

Your Committees have amended this measure by extending the implementation date for new functional plans by one year to provide more time to establish an advisory committee.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ways and Means and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2077, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2077, S.D. 2.