STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1629-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: S.B. No. 3070
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. 3070, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GRANTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Specifically, this measure establishes legislative policies to:
(1) Make appropriations for grants during the regular session of each odd-numbered year for the ensuing fiscal biennium;
(2) Appropriate moneys for not more than one grant for each grant recipient during a fiscal biennium; and
(3) Place a low priority on requests to fund general and administrative expenses,
subject to the Legislature's discretion to deviate from the policies.
The Hawaii Youth Services Network and Child & Family Service provided comments.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring an organization to negotiate a lump sum or installment repayment to the State of the grant used for the planning, design, construction, renovation, operations, or equipment of facilities when it discontinues the activities and disposes of the facilities by sale or lease;
(2) Requiring the negotiation of a lump sum or installment repayment to the State to be between the organization and the Department of Budget and Finance;
(3) Requiring organizations to publicly recognize that a project was supported by the State when awarded a grant; and
(4) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.
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. 3070, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3070, S.D. 1, 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 |
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