STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3502

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2389

       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. 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 the federal reimbursement maximization special fund for corrections workforce recruitment and retention.

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

     Your Committee finds that this measure will align section 353C-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with federal provisions on the use of moneys in the federal reimbursement maximization special fund.

     Your Committee has made a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to this measure by rewording the amendment to section 353C‑7(b)(8), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to harmonize the new language with the phrasing of similar provisions of existing law.

     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. 2389, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2389, 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