Makes technical amendment to budget allotment modification law.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 37-36, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) Prior to the implementation of any modification in allotment proposed by the director of finance pursuant to subsection (a)[,] in which the sum of the modifications exceed 2.5 per cent of the total general fund appropriation made by the legislature in any fiscal year, the director shall notify the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chairpersons of the senate committee on ways and means and the house of representatives committee on finance, respectively, of the director's intent."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.