STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2909

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2389

       H.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 Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2389, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT MAXIMIZATION SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the use of funds deposited into the federal reimbursement maximization special fund for corrections workforce recruitment and retention.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and United Public Workers.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides for funds deposited into the federal reimbursement maximization special fund to be used to recruit and retain employees in the corrections workforce.  This allowed use of funds aligns with provisions in other federal and state programs.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2389, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair