STAND. COM. REP. NO.  601-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2688

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2688 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Increase the amount that the Environmental Health Education Fund (EHEF) may accumulate before the excess is transferred into the general fund;

     (2)  Allow the funds in the EHEF to be used for sanitation program activities and functions; and

     (3)  Change the name of the EHEF to the Sanitation and Environmental Health Special Fund.

     The Department of Health and its Sanitation Branch offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2688, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2688, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair