STAND. COM. REP. 1337
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 880
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 880, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the Legislature's ability to develop sound economic and fiscal policies for the State by:
(1) Establishing the Legislative Budget Office (Office);
(2) Appropriating unspecified funds for the Office to carry out its duties and functions; and
(3) Eliminating the Office of the Legislative Analyst and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
The Office of the Auditor and the Legislative Reference Bureau offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting provisions that authorize the Office to obtain information, data, estimates, and statistics developed by the other legislative agencies; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of 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 S.B. No. 880, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 880, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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