THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
Senator David Y. Ige, Chair
Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2014

DATE:

Wednesday, February 05, 2014

TIME:

10:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB2153
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY.
Requires the department of taxation to provide an annual report on tax expenditures to the legislature on or before September 15th of each odd-numbered year. Requires legislation establishing new tax expenditures to include certain specified provisions.

WAM

SB2276
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO STATE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION.
Requires that the state financial plan and budget be developed under the assumption that no funds have been authorized and that each expenditure be justified.  Applies to the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium and thereafter.

WAM

SB2284
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE COUNCIL ON REVENUES.
Establishes an interdepartmental research task force to assist the council on revenues in preparing revenue forecasts for state government.  Makes an appropriation to department of taxation to prepare tax data for use in the development of various economic models.  Makes an appropriation to the department of business, economic development, and tourism to assist the council on revenues with the development of various economic models.

WAM

SB2321
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.
Provides for escheat of unclaimed cash in certain amounts for certain periods of time that were deposited into the unclaimed property trust fund.

WAM

SB2410
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
Requires DAGS to report the operational costs of capital improvement projects to the governor.  Requires all agencies submitting a capital improvement project proposal to furnish DAGS with an estimate and documents that support the estimate of operational costs.

WAM

SB2411
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SUBSIDIES.
Deletes references to "subsidy" in the chapters establishing standards and criteria for the award of grants to private organizations and individuals.  Makes conforming deletions.

WAM

SB2519
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURE CEILING.
Recalibrates the general fund expenditure ceiling from the fiscal year 2015-2016.  Requires the recalibration to be based on the previous fiscal year's general fund appropriation, rather than general fund expenditure ceiling.

WAM

SB2925
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO BUDGETING.
Requires "position ceilings" to be included in the executive budget.  Requires a "position ceiling" to separately identify the maximum number of permanent and temporary positions authorized in the executive budget.  States intent that the provisions also apply to the judiciary budget by operation of existing law.  Deletes statutory authority for certain departments to create positions in excess of the position ceiling.

WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

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