STAND. COM. REP. NO. 896
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 126
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirtieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2019
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 126 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the operating and capital improvement budgets of the Executive Branch for the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium.
Your Committee
received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor; Department of Land and Natural Resources;
Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Commerce
and Consumer Affairs; Department of Human Resources Development; Department of
Human Services; Department of the Attorney General; Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Department of
Agriculture; Department of Taxation; Department of Defense; Department of
Accounting and General Services; Department of Budget and Finance; Department
of Public Safety; Department of Education; Department of Transportation;
Department of Health; University of Hawaii; Office of Enterprise Technology
Services; Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Hawaii Green Infrastructure
Authority; Land Use Commission; Office of Elections; Campaign Spending
Commission; Hawaii State Public Library System; Hawaii Housing Finance and
Development Corporation; Hawaii Community Development Authority; Executive
Office on Early Learning; Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation; Pacific
International Space Center for Exploration; Hawaii State Commission on the
Status of Women; Public Utilities Commission; Office of Information Practices; Hawaii
Technology Development Corporation; Hawaii Tourism Authority; State Public
Charter School Commission; Pacific International Space Center for Exploration
Systems (PISCES); Special Education Advisory Council; Alexander and Baldwin; Maui
Health System; Ben Dyre Family Limited Partnership; The Nature Conservancy; The
Kauai Watershed Alliance; Kahuku Medical Center; Mauna Kahalawai Watershed
Partnership; Hawaii Association of Watershed Partnerships; Catholic Charities Hawaii;
Shark Wheel, Inc.; Partners in Care; Kamehameha Schools; Coordinating Group on
Alien Pest Species; RedWorks Construction Technologies Inc; and eight
individuals.
Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from four individuals.
Your Committee
received comments on this measure from Hawaii
Health Systems Corporation, State Procurement Office, and Hawaii Primary Care
Association.
Your Committee finds that replacing the contents of this measure with provisions for an unspecified appropriation will provide a vehicle to fulfill requests made through Governor's Messages to the Legislature during the remainder of the 2019 Regular Session for any additional funding not currently under consideration in another measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting provisions for an unspecified appropriation of general funds to be expended by the Office of the Governor.
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. 126, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 126, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for 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 |
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