STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3527

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1752

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1752, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for a grant administrative support personnel position in the Office of Community Services of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide the Office of Community Services with additional support in administering its variety of federal and state grants.

     Your Committee notes that as the appropriation amount is unspecified, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is requested to provide the committees that have heard this measure with cost estimates as this measure heads to conference committee.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2076, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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 H.B. No. 1752, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1752, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair