Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1235, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to modify the legislative allowance for travel expenses for board, lodging, and incidentals.

Present law ties the legislative travel allowance for board, lodging, and incidental expenses to the maximum rate paid for any public officer or employee. The intent of the measure is to make the rate more flexible, by setting it at an amount that does not exceed the rate paid to any public officer of the state or federal government.

Your Committee finds that establishing additional flexibility for the rate of these expenses is appropriate. Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1235, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1235, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.