STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1896

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1360

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1360, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FISCAL BIENNIUM 2019-2021 BUDGET REQUESTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate or authorize funds for programs of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Public Utilities Commission.

Your Committees find that this measure expresses programs or positions, maximum sums appropriated or authorized, or means of financing indicated for programs of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. According to testimony received by your Committees, H.B. No. 2, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1, the General Appropriations Act of 2019, omits a number of appropriations that have been requested by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Public Utilities Commission. Therefore, amendments are necessary to incorporate these appropriations.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying the description for program ID CCA103;

(2) Removing duplicative appropriations already included in the operating budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020–2021;

(3) Adjusting the amount and clarifying the purpose of the appropriation for program ID CCA111;

(4) Adjusting the amounts and clarifying the purposes of the appropriations for program ID CCA901;

(5) Inserting appropriations for program IDs CCA102, CCA104, CCA105, and CCA106;

(6) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2051, to encourage further discussion; and

(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1360, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1360, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair