STAND. COM. REP. NO.  600

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 1286

      S.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BUDGET,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make emergency appropriations for fiscal year 2010-2011 to the following agencies:

     (1)  The Office of the Governor and Office of the Lieutenant Governor to provide full-year staffing;

     (2)  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to provide funds and positions for the deputy director and deputy director's secretary;

     (3)  The Department of Defense for the deputy adjutant general and deputy adjutant general's secretary; and

     (4)  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the deputy director's secretary.

     The Office of the Governor, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism testified in support of this bill.

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 99, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature.

     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 S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1, 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 Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair