Bill Text: HI SB2440 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Board of Water Supply; Disbursement of Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-20 - (H) Act 037, on 4/19/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 249). [SB2440 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2440-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1227-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2440

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2440, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide greater flexibility to county boards of water supply by permitting other county authorized signatories to issue warrants for the disbursement of funds for accounts payable.

 

     The County of Kauai Office of the County Attorney testified in support of this bill.  The County of Kauai Department of Water provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing boards of water supply to delegate powers and duties regarding funds disbursement through policies as well as rules; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2440, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2440, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair