STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2471

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2391

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2391, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to restore the operating budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.

     Specifically, this measure rectifies inadvertent deletions made on April 30, 2009, by the House and Senate Conference Committee on H.B. No. 900, S.D. 1, Regular Session of 2009, relating to the operating budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to reflect the agreement reached by the Conference Committee in 2009.  The trust funds appropriated for beneficiary advocacy are conditioned on a matching trust fund expenditure by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted comments in support of this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee has made technical amendments for style and clarity.

     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. 2391, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2391, S.D. 2.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair