Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1949 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature and its service agencies.

More specifically, this measure provides for the expenses of the Legislature, the Office of the Auditor, the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Office of the Ombudsman, the State Ethics Commission, the Legislative Information System, and the Legislative Broadcast System.

Your Committee has amended the bill by reducing the amount appropriated to the Senate to $6,876,979.

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. 1949, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1949, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.