STAND. COM. REP. NO.  86-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2281

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2281 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide an emergency appropriation of $132,000 in general funds for the operations of the Office of the Governor.

Pursuant to requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in Governor's Message No. 184 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature to fund the operations of the Office of the Governor.

The Office of the Governor testified in support of this measure.

     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 H.B. No. 2281 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair