STAND. COM. REP. NO. 847

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1689

       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. 1689 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Budget and Finance to establish a searchable website to report on all entities receiving state awards.

     Your Committee received comments in support of the measure from the Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association.  Comments in opposition were received from the Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that with appropriate funding the Department of Budget and Finance will be able to develop the capability to provide public access to information on organizations receiving public funding.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds to the Department of Budget and Finance to develop the searchable website and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2007.  Your Committee has also made technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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. 1689, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1689, 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,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair