HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1353
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER OPERATING BUDGET.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to provide funding for the operations of the office of the public defender for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021, under the purview of the house of representatives standing committee on judiciary.

SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. Unless otherwise clear from the context, as used in this Act:

"Expending agency" means the executive department, independent commission, bureau, office, board, or other establishment of the state government (other than the legislature, office of Hawaiian affairs, and judiciary), the political subdivisions of the State, or any quasi‑public institution supported in whole or in part by state funds, which is authorized to expend specified appropriations made by this Act.

Abbreviations, where used to denote the expending agency or a house of representatives standing committee, shall mean the following:

BUF Department of budget and finance

"Means of financing" or "MOF" means the source from which funds are appropriated or authorized to be expended for the programs and projects specified in this Act. All appropriations are followed by letter symbols. The letter symbols, where used, shall have the following meanings:

A General funds

"Position ceiling" means the maximum number of permanent and temporary full-time equivalent positions authorized for a particular program during a specified period or periods, as denoted by an asterisk for permanent full-time equivalent positions and a pound sign for temporary full-time equivalent positions.

"Program ID" means the unique identifier for the specific program and consists of the abbreviation for the organization responsible for carrying out the program followed by the organization number for the program.

SECTION 3. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to accomplish the purposes and programs designated herein, are hereby appropriated or authorized, as the case may be, from the means of financing specified to the expending agencies designated for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021. The total expenditures and the number of positions in each fiscal year of the biennium shall not exceed the sums and the position ceilings indicated for each fiscal year, except as provided elsewhere in this Act or as provided by general law.

PROGRAM APPROPRIATIONS
						APPROPRIATIONS
	ITEM NO.	PROG. ID	PROGRAM	EXPENDING AGENCY	FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020		M O F	FISCAL YEAR 2020-2021	M O F

1. BUF151 – OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER

OPERATING BUF 174,610A 38,756A

SECTION 4. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of budget and finance for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2030.

Report Title:

Public Defender; Budget and Finance; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds for the operating budget for the Office of the Public Defender for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)

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