STAND. COM. REP. NO. 666
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 1673
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1673 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to require appropriation transfers and changes to be reported to the Legislature and put into effect only with legislative approval.
Your Committee finds that the intent of the Legislature in enacting section 37-74(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, concerning appropriation transfers or changes between programs and agencies, is now and was originally that these transfers and changes shall not be put into effect without legislative approval. However, the administration has made appropriation transfers and changes without legislative approval, including but not limited to the tourism liaison, and only reported these after-the-fact to the legislature. This bill will require the administration to report proposed transfers and changes to the Legislature and permit implementation of them only with legislative approval.
Your Committee has amended this bill to clarify its intent and by making technical nonsubstantive changes.
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 S.B. No. 1673, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1673, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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