STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3516

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 Ways and Means, 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 and transfer any remaining unencumbered balances to the administrator/inmate activity account trust account.

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

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that since the store operations at the Halawa Correctional Facility, Waiawa Correctional Facility, and Oahu Community Correctional Facility are now maintained by Hawaii Correctional Industries, the revolving funds for correctional facility stores account is no longer needed and should be abolished.

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 H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair