Bill Text: HI HB661 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-21 - The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB661 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB661-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  341

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 661

      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 Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 661 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect Hawaii's children by appropriating moneys from the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund of the State to maintain the levels of social service programs relating to child abuse and neglect.

 

     The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance testified in opposition to this bill.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 661, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 661, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair