STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2434

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2652

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2652 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the state budget and state supplemental budget to contain information regarding vacant positions that the Director of Human Resources Development intends to reclassify or abolish.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that the inclusion in the state budget and state supplemental budget of vacant positions that are expected to be reclassified or abolished will help to increase transparency and ensure those budgets more accurately reflect position counts.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for purposes of clarity and consistency.

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. 2652, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2652, 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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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair