STAND. COM. REP. NO.  819

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1309

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1309 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GRANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require organizations receiving grants to:

     (1)  Repay the State the amount of the grant used for the planning, design, construction, renovation, operations, and equipment of facilities, if the organization fails to continue the activities or services for which the grant was approved; and

     (2)  Publicly recognize that the project was supported by the State.  

Panaewa Hawaiian Home Lands Community Association supported this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Authorizing expending agencies of grants to delegate their expending authority to a different agency, subject to approval of the grantee and the Governor, when the grantee and agency to which the expending authority is delegated determine such delegation to be advantageous; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 1309, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1309, 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