Report Title:
Emergency and budget reserve fund.
Description:
Increases voting requirement for appropriations from two-thirds majority vote of each house of the legislature to a unanimous vote of each house of the legislature.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 328L-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d) The legislature may make appropriations from the fund for the following purposes:
(1) To maintain levels of programs determined to be essential to public health, safety, welfare, and education;
(2) To provide for counter cyclical economic and employment programs in periods of economic downturn;
(3) To restore facilities destroyed or damaged or services disrupted by disaster in any county; and
(4) To meet other emergencies when declared by the governor or determined to be urgent by the legislature.
Any act making appropriations from the emergency and budget reserve fund shall include a declaration of findings and purposes setting forth the purposes, the amounts, and the reasons why the appropriations are necessary and shall require a [
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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