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 S.B. No. 2965, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the means of financing as enacted under the General Appropriations Act of 2005 for tourism research activities conducted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

Specifically, the measure amends Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005 (Act 178), the General Appropriations Act, to correct an inadvertent error by properly referencing the means of financing for tourism research conducted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as being from moneys obtained through an interdepartmental transfer from the Hawaii Tourism Authority, rather than directly from a special fund.

The measure cures this error in two ways:

The sum involved is $1,327,887, which was designated as a "B" funds, or expenditures from special funds. This measure changes the means of financing code for the appropriation to "U" funds, the code for interdepartmental transfer.

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 S.B. No. 2965, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2965, S.D. 2.