CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP

 

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.47-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2495

S.D. 1

C.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2495, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $2,268,663 in general funds and $1,538,194 in federal funds to provide emergency funding for foster board and board-related costs, permanency assistance, and difficulty-of-care payments for foster and adoptive parents, permanent custodians, and guardians of children with special needs.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by deleting the section relating to the general fund expenditure ceiling. Your Committee on Conference notes that the emergency appropriation contained in this bill will not cause the aggregate general fund appropriation for the State to exceed the general fund expenditure ceiling set forth in the State Constitution.

Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2495, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2495, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ DAVID M. MATSUURA, Chair		____________________________ MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Co-Chair
		____________________________ BERTHA C. KAWAKAMI, Co-Chair