STAND. COM. REP. NO. 630

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 586

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 586 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form bill is to amend the laws relating to state funds.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting provisions that make an appropriation for staffing and operating expenses relating to the establishment of the Office of the Legislative Analyst.

     Your Committee finds that the Office of the Legislative Analyst was created pursuant to Act 347, Session Laws of Hawaii 1990, codified as section 21F-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  That position has never been filled.

     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. 586, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 586, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair