STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2030

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2257

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Education and Housing and Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2257 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRONIC WARRANT VOUCHERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Education, the Department of Accounting and General Services, and the University of Hawaii to accept electronically mailed warrant vouchers for bills of materials, supplies, and incidentals as original documentation, the receipt of which authorizes payment to be made to each individual to whom the State is indebted.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two state agencies.  One state agency submitted comments.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2257, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2257, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Higher Education,

____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair