Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2498 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to government.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that allows the Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Executive Office on Aging to communicate directly with the Legislature and the Governor, make personnel decisions, and purchase equipment without the approval of the department head.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2498, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2498, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, for further consideration.