Bill Text: HI HB1061 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-07 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [HB1061 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-HB1061-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1061
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  This Act is recommended by the governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

     SECTION 2.  The purpose of this Act is to amend Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, which appropriated moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to maintain the levels of programs determined to be essential to education, public health, and public welfare for fiscal year 2010-2011.

     The existing language of certain of Act 191's appropriations makes it difficult to carry out the legislature's intention of awarding moneys to specific organizations.  This Act provides technical corrections to Act 191 to permit the awarding of moneys to specified organizations and extends the lapse date of Act 191's appropriations from June 30, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

     SECTION 3.  Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, is amended by amending sections 12, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39  to read as follows:

     "SECTION 12.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $332,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Waianae District Comprehensive Health and Hospital Board, Incorporated to support its emergency room services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 16.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $500,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 18.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Windward Spouse Abuse Shelter.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 19.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Blueprint for Change Program for Neighborhood Place Walk-in Centers.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 21.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $762,500 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 to provide funding for grants pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to support domestic violence shelters statewide[.] and to be distributed as follows:

     (1)  Child and Family Service

         (A)  Two shelters on Oahu         $206,429

         (B)  Two shelters on Big Island   $206,429

     (2)  Parents and Children Together          $103,214

     (3)  Women Helping Women               $103,214

     (4)  Hale Hoomalu                      $40,000

     (5)  Young Women's Christian           $103,214

          Association (YWCA) of Kauai

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 22.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $210,000 for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Hale Mahaolu for personal care services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 30.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 to Adult Friends for Youth for youth gang prevention and intervention services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 32.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii to provide pro bono legal services for indigent persons.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 33.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $720,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii to provide general civil legal services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 34.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $282,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Hawaii Family Law Clinic to provide services to obtain temporary restraining orders.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 35.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $150,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for Catholic Charities Hawaii to provide intra-familial sex assault services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 36.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $150,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Children's Alliance of Hawaii, Inc. to provide child sex assault services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the judiciary for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 38.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $75,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 to the Young Men's Christian Association for the Weed and Seed Program.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of this Act."

     SECTION 39.  There is appropriated out of the emergency and budget reserve fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $466,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children for the sex abuse treatment center for statewide sex assault services.  This is a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of the attorney general for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 4.  Act 191, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

     SECTION 40A.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balances of any appropriation made by this Act as of the close of business on June 30, 2011 shall not lapse; provided that all moneys from the appropriations that are unencumbered as of June 30, 2012, shall lapse to the emergency and budget reserve fund.

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST

 

 

Report Title:

Relating to the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund

 

Description:

Makes an emergency appropriation from the emergency and budget reserve fund and makes technical corrections to Act 191, Session Laws of 2010 to permit the awarding of moneys to specified organizations. Extends the lapse date of Act 191's appropriations from June 30, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

 

 

 

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