STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1094-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1653

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to abolish the revolving funds for correctional facility stores account of the Department of Public Safety and transfer the unencumbered balance to the administrator/inmate activity account trust account.

The Department of Public Safety testified in support of this measure. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing its effective date to upon its approval; 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. 1653, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair