Bill Text: HI SB2771 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency Appropriation for Reimbursement of Costs Associated with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Meetings

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-21 - (H) The committee(s) on PBM recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB2771 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2771-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2417

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2771

S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2771 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF COSTS RELATED TO THE ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION MEETINGS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reimburse seven state departments for the costs of providing emergency management, public safety, and security in preparation for and during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings held in Hawaii in November 2011.

 

Specifically, this bill appropriates the sum of $2,709,966 in general revenues for fiscal year 2011-2012.  The bill also requires that any federal reimbursement funds received for expenditures provided for by the bill be deposited into the general fund.

 

     Your Committee finds that hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings last year provided the State a great opportunity to show the world that the State is capable of successfully hosting a globally significant event.

 

However, your Committee notes that although federal reimbursement for the State's expenses is being sought, such reimbursement is not guaranteed nor is it likely to be received during the current fiscal year.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2771, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2771, S.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair