STAND. COM. REP. NO. 780

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 857

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 857 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PREAUDITS OF PROPOSED PAYMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend until June 30, 2020, the Department of Education's exemption from the Comptroller's complete supervision of all accounts, including the preauditing of all proposed payments of $10,000 or more.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Education has demonstrated its capability to continue making its own determinations of the propriety of its expenditures and its compliance with applicable law.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying the repeal and reenactment provisions pertaining to amendments by prior Acts to section 40-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, amended in this measure, and other related sections of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     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 S.B. No. 857, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 857, 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