STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1476-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2240

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 2240, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REESTABLISH A VECTOR CONTROL BRANCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Health to hire more full-time employees for vector control and to reestablish a Vector Control Branch within its Environmental Health Administration.

The Department of Defense, Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, Oahu Invasive Species Committee, Hawaii Green Growth, and The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health commented on 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 S.B. No. 2240, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair