Bill Text: HI HB26 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Legislative Appropriations ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-02-19 - Act 001, 2/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1101). [HB26 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB26-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 26

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 26 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, THE OMBUDSMAN, AND THE ETHICS COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the legislative branch of the State.  Specifically, this bill:

 

     (1)  Appropriates $7,464,744 to the Senate;

 

     (2)  Appropriates $10,569,287 to the House of Representatives;

 

     (3)  Appropriates $2,663,849 to the Office of the Auditor;

 

     (4)  Appropriates $2,550,828 for deposit into the Audit Revolving Fund;

 

     (5)  Appropriates $6,000,000 from the Audit Revolving Fund to the Office of the Auditor to conduct or complete its audit functions;

 

     (6)  Appropriates $2,983,970 to the Legislative Reference Bureau;

 

     (7)  Appropriates $1,017,875 to the Office of the Ombudsman; and

 

     (8)  Appropriates $849,531 to the State Ethics Commission.

 

     The House Clerk's Office, the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Office of the Auditor, the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Hawaii State Ethics Commission provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Increasing the appropriation to the Office of the Auditor to $2,823,849, including increasing the amount for defraying expenses during fiscal year 2013-2014 to $2,673,849;

 

     (2)  Increasing the appropriation to the Legislative Reference Bureau to $3,116,038;

 

     (3)  Increasing the appropriation to the Office of the Ombudsman to $1,130,728; and

 

     (4)  Increasing the appropriation to the Hawaii State Ethics Commission to $909,531.

 

     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 H.B. No. 26, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 26, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair