STAND. COM. REP. NO.  845-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2465

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2465 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal, reclassify, amend, or abolish various non-general funds and accounts and to transfer any unencumbered balances of repealed funds, as recommended by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 15-19.

The Office of the Auditor testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health and Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Human Services and Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including unspecified general fund appropriations for expenditure by the Department of Human Services and Hawaii Public Housing Authority to fund programs adversely affected by the repeal or amendment of various non-general funds and accounts by 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. 2465, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2465, H.D. 1, 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