STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3672

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1654

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. 1654 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 office of community services special fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

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

Your Committee finds that the Auditor's Report No. 17-12 found that the office of community services special fund does not meet the criteria for continuance as a special fund and therefore recommended that the fund be eliminated and the remaining moneys be transferred to the general fund.

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. 1654, 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