Bill Text: HI SB20 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Modifications to Legislative Appropriations; Reporting

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB20 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB20-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 111

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 20

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 20 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 require the Director of Finance to report to the Legislature the projected cost variance and reasons for any material change to an expense, program, project, or capital improvement project for which the Legislature has already appropriated funds.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from Kalbert K. Young, Interim Director, Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that requiring the Department of Budget and Finance to report such information will assist the Legislature in its budget deliberation processes, thereby enhancing its ability to exercise its mandated fiscal oversight responsibilities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure, as suggested by the Department of Budget and Finance, by:

    

(1)  Limiting the information that must be reported to the Legislature to a material change in a capital improvement project;

    

(2)  Amending the definition of "material change" to mean a modification in the scope of work as specified by the project title and description of the capital improvement project appropriation;

 

(3)  Deleting proposed amendments to section 37-36(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to notice by the Director of Finance of allotment modifications of an unspecified percentage; and

    

(4)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of conformity and style.

 

     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. 20, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 20, 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,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair