Bill Text: HI SB2654 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Education; Appropriation Limitation; Transfer Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2654 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2654-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2638

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2654

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2654, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to specify that appropriations to the EDN 100 school-based budgeting program identifier shall not be transferred to any other program identifier of the Department of Education.

 

     Written comments opposing this measure were submitted by the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies that the funds appropriated by the Legislature to the EDN 100 school-based budgeting program identifier are for the sole use of the EDN 100 budgeting identifier program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing an exception that in the event of receiving unanticipated federal grant funds expended under EDN 100, the Department of Education may transfer a general fund amount out of the EDN 100 school-based program identifier, not to exceed the amount of the federal grant, to other programs to address unforeseen funding shortfalls; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, 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. 2654, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2654, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair