STAND. COM. REP. NO.  537-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2008

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2008 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal section 353-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), which provides that gifts of money or property donated to the Department of Public Safety (DPS) must be deposited in the state treasury and reported to the Legislature by DPS annually.

     DPS opposed this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by replacing its contents with provisions that direct DPS to close the Gifts to the Department of Public Safety Trust Fund that was originally opened upon DPS's erroneous assumption that the establishment of the trust fund was authorized by statute.

     Your Committee has also amended this bill by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2008; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2008, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2008, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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CINDY EVANS, Chair