STAND. COM. REP. NO. 198

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 103

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 103 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to adjust the amount of an appropriation in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2014 to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for fiscal year 2014-2015.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor.

Your Committee notes that the Governor's testimony also included a request to add an amendment in the measure to correct a technical error in an appropriation that was made in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2014 as a grant to the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii in support of a capital improvement project.

In response to the Governor's request and prior to the hearing on S.B. No. 103, your Committee distributed a proposed Senate Draft 1 that included a provision to adjust the authorized uses for the appropriation made in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2014 as a grant to the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii.

 Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed Senate Draft 1 from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee finds that this measure corrects a technical error in Act 122, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to accurately reflect the projected costs for accrued vacation payments by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed Senate Draft 1 to accommodate the Governor's request.  However, your Committee emphasizes that this amendment should not serve as a precedent in the future for amending grants that were made by previous Legislatures.

     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. 103, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 103, 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,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair