STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2958

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1653

H.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent 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.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the revolving funds for correctional facility stores account are no longer needed. As noted in testimony by the Department of Public Safety, the store operations at the Halawa Correctional Facility, Waiawa Correctional Facility, and Oahu Community Correctional Facility are all now maintained by the Department of Public Safety. Therefore, your Committee finds that the revolving funds for correctional facility stores account should be abolished and any remaining unencumbered balances should be transferred to the administrator/inmate activity account trust account.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair