STAND. COM. REP. NO. 827-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1654

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. 1654 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 Office of Community Services Special Fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and to transfer the unencumbered balance to the general fund.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations testified in support of this measure. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments on this measure.

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. 1654 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

____________________________

SYLVIA LUKE, Chair