STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1519

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 104

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 104, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUDGETING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Budget and Finance to work with a state department selected by the Director of Finance on a pilot project to develop efficiency measures for possible inclusion in various documents that are required to be prepared under the Executive Budget Act.

The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 104, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 104, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair