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. 2273 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to cover anticipated expenditures resulting from the May 7, 2005, fire at Kalaheo Elementary School.

Specifically, this measure appropriates general funds of $1,500,000 for transfer into the state risk management revolving fund and appropriates $6,500,000 out of the state risk management revolving fund for the anticipated expenditures.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2273, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2273, S.D. 1.