STAND. COM. REP. NO. 927

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 726

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 726, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the administrative assistant position within the Department of Human Resources Development and to reassign the responsibilities of the administrative assistant to the assistant to the director.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee finds that this measure repeals and reassigns the responsibilities of a currently unbudgeted position.

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. 726, S.D. 1, 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