Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2444, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the State and counties from expending federal funds provided by the United States Office for Domestic Preparedness under the State Homeland Security Program unless the state Department of Defense (DOD) submits a detailed expenditure report and homeland security plan.

Several concerned individuals supported this bill. DOD testified that it did not support the measure. The Department of Transportation opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2444, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2444, H.D. 2.