STAND. COM. REP. NO. 914

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1424

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1424, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the transfer of funds appropriated for the purposes of filling vacancies to operating expenses.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance; Department of Defense; Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; and Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services; Department of Human Services; Department of Agriculture; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1424, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair