Bill Text: HI SB795 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of the Auditor; Investigative Unit; Appropriations ($)

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-22 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and McKelvey, Takumi, Woodson excused (3). [SB795 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB795-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1159

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 795

      S.D. 1

      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 Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 795, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FINANCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase transparency by establishing an investigative unit within the Office of the Auditor to conduct investigations involving alleged or suspected government waste, fraud, abuse, nonfeasance, or malfeasance related to state finances.

 

     The Office of the Auditor provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 795, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 795, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

 

 

		____________________________ SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair