Bill Text: HI HCR183 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Focused Financial and Performance Audit; Cable Television Division

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-16 - (S) Referred to CPN/WAM. [HCR183 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR183-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1774-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 183

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 183 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO PERFORM A FINANCIAL AND PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Auditor to perform a financial and performance audit of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and to submit a report of the results, including any necessary proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013.

 

     The Community Media Producers Association, NewsWire Hawaii, and an individual member of the Honolulu City Council supported the measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs offered comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the contents reflecting legislative findings and inserting new language that:

 

     (1)  Narrows the scope of the requested financial and performance audit to focus on the Cable Television Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs;

 

     (2)  Reflects the findings of the Legislature that the performance audit of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs funded by a 2011 appropriation and currently in progress does not meet the Legislature's expectations for quality or for appropriate expenditure of public funds;

 

     (3)  Requests the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to suspend any further expenditure of funds for a contracted performance audit of PEG organizations under the jurisdiction of the Cable Television Division; and

 

     (4)  Makes technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 183, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 183, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

 

 

		____________________________ KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair