STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3197

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 2235

        H.D. 1

        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 Labor and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2235, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Reclassify or repeal certain non-general funds of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, pursuant to the recommendations made by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 23-06, and to transfer any unencumbered balance of any repealed fund to the general fund; and

 

     (2)  Exempt the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund from central services expenses.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that Section 23-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the Auditor to review all existing special, revolving, and trust funds, once every five years.  Based on this review, the Auditor identified multiple non-general funds of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations that are recommended to be repealed or reclassified.  Therefore, this measure adopts the Auditor's recommendation and reclassifies or repeals those funds.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2235, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2235, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Technology,

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair