STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3024

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 30

       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 Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 30 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION URGING CONGRESS TO AMEND THE UNFUNDED MANDATES REFORM ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the United States Congress to amend the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

 

     Your Committee received comments from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that unfunded federal mandates place unreasonable demands on limited state resources.  The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act was adopted in 1995 to limit these mandates by requiring accurate cost estimates of federal legislation and rule making.  Loopholes in the original legislation have prevented the intent of the legislation from being fully implemented.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 30, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 30, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair