STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1563-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2865

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2865 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT MAXIMIZATION SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the allowed uses of funds deposited into the Federal Reimbursement Maximization Special Fund to include uses identified and approved by the United States Department of Justice.

The Department of Public Safety testified in support of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2865, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2865, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair