Bill Text: HI SB2500 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Financial and Management Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to HAW, LMG, FIN, referral sheet 34 [SB2500 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2500-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2461

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2500

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2500, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Auditor to conduct a financial and management audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and report its findings and recommendations to the legislature.

 

     Your Committee received comments opposing this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that a financial and management audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is needed to ensure that the office is properly carrying out its duties and responsibilities.  Your Committee further finds that an audit would address public concerns regarding the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' use of funds and management decisions.

 

     Your Committee amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to reimburse the Auditor for the cost of the audit and that the reimbursement shall be made from the general funds of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and

 

     (2)  Clarifying that the Auditor's report shall be submitted no later than twenty days prior the convening of the regular session of 2011.

 

     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. 2500, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2500, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair