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. 2346 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation for the electricity costs of the Department of Education.

Specifically, the measure appropriates $5,169,458 to fund the Department of Education's electricity usage.

Your Committee finds that electricity costs of the Department of Education are centrally budgeted within the Office of Business Services. The Department requires emergency funding based upon increases in electricity usage and in the cost per kilowatt-hour. If emergency funds are not appropriated, current Department of Education funding for electricity costs will last until April, 2006.

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. 2346, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2346, S.D. 1.