Bill Text: HI SB404 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriations; Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB404 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB404-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 597

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 404

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 404 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for various programs, as grants for fiscal year 2009-2010.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from one state department.  The comments submitted may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that expenditures from the emergency and budget reserve fund are needed to meet the present economic emergencies in the State.  Your Committee believes the moneys are urgently needed to:

 

     (1)  Maintain levels of programs determined to be essential to public health, safety, welfare, and education;

 

     (2)  Provide for counter cyclical economic and employment programs in periods of economic downturn;

 

     (3)  Restore facilities destroyed or damaged or services disrupted by disaster; and

 

     (4)  Meet other emergencies when declared by the governor or determined as urgent by the Legislature.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2070, to encourage further discussion on this matter.

 

     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. 404, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 404, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair