STAND. COM. REP. NO. 59

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1286

       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 S.B. No. 1286 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1)  Appropriate additional general funds for the Office of the Governor and Office of the Lieutenant Governor to provide staffing from January 2011 through June 2011;

(2)  Appropriate additional general funds for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to provide funds and positions for the Deputy Director and the Deputy Director's secretary;

(3)  Provide general fund positions for the Department of Defense for the Deputy Adjutant General and Deputy Adjutant General's secretary; and

(4)  Provide a general fund position for the Department of Labor for the Deputy Director's secretary.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Amy Asselbaye, Chief of Staff, Executive Chambers; Office of the Lieutenant Governor; Dwight Y. Takamine, Director, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; and Richard C. Lim, Interim Director, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Hawaii Constitution and necessary to meet fiscal year 2010-2011 program requirements for the affected departments and offices.

Your Committee has amended this measure to:

     (1)  Correctly reflect the underlying language of Act 162, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, as amended by Act 180, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010; and

     (2)  Make technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 1286, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1, 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