STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2859

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3100

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 3100 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to consolidate the Department of Budget and Finance and the Department of Human Resources Development into a single department, to be known as the Department of Budget, Finance, and Human Resources.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee finds that consolidation of the Department of Budget and Finance and the Department of Human Resources Development could improve coordination of state hiring and the budgeting of resources for applicable positions.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

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 S.B. No. 3100, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3100, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair