STAND. COM. REP. NO. 116

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1271

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 S.B. No. 1271 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC NOTICES FOR THE EXPENDITURE CEILING AND THE AWARDING OF GRANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the type of public notice required for reporting the state growth rate and expenditure ceiling and the status of unreleased state grants.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Kalbert K. Young, Interim Director, Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that the development of a more streamlined, cost-effective approach to public reporting of the state growth and expenditure ceiling and the status of unreleased grants would be in the public interest.  By authorizing public notice to be posted on the Department of Budget and Finance's internet website, the cost of publishing such public notice would be reduced.

     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. 1271 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair