STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1232

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 838

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 838, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to support reapportionment by authorizing and funding five full-time temporary positions in the Office of Elections.

     Your Committee finds that the State Constitution requires that reapportionment be conducted every ten years and that the next reapportionment will take place during part of fiscal year 2010-2011.  Your Committee further finds that additional emergency funding and personnel are necessary to allow the Reapportionment Commission to complete the scope of its work.  However, your Committee believes that the appropriation may be reduced by $68,000, of which $60,000 was budgeted for overtime costs and $8,000 was for the cost of the "plotter," which the Committee finds unnecessary.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Reducing the appropriation amount by $68,000 to $664,430;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2117, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

     (3)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity and consistency.

     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 H.B. No. 838, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 838, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair