Bill Text: HI HB885 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Constitutional Amendment; General Fund Balance Excess; Child Development Account

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB885 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB885-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  30

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 885

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 885 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO USE A PORTION OF THE GENERAL FUND BALANCE EXCESS TO FUND THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to propose an amendment to Article VII, section 6, of the Hawaii Constitution to use an unspecified percentage of the general fund balance excess to fund the Child Development Account Program.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance testified in opposition to this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 885, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 885, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair