WAYS AND MEANS (WAM) The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to overall state financing policies, including revenue enhancement, taxation, other revenues, and cash and debt management, statewide implementation of planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation, and government structure and finance.
Budget Highlights HB1600 HD1 SD2 CD1 Appropriates General Fund FY2023:
$8.7 Billion
All MOF FY2023:
$16.9 Billion
Department of Accounting and General Services • $500,000 for a creative grant program for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. • $200,000 for an artist fellowship program. • $2,000,000 to support the mission of Iolani Palace. • $10,000,000 for capital improvements to Bishop Museum • $7,500,000 to support programming and operations of the Bishop Museum Department of Agriculture • $654,454 for rabies quarantine. • $425,000 for invasive pest species such as the coffee berry borer beetle, spittle bug, and Japanese beetle, mainly impacting two industries; coffee and ranching. • $1,600,000 and two positions to clear a portion of the stream in Kapaa, Kauai. • $26,000,000 to upgrade the Wahiawa Dam and Spillway, and purchase lands in fee simple interest. • $658,480 for aquaculture development; includes four permanent positions and operating expenses. • $2,105,803 for security services to address trespassing, abandonment of vehicles on agribusiness development corporation land, and other security issues on vacant land; and also for two permanent positions to assist with ADC's accounting and assets. • $800,000 for ungulate fencing for local farmers, primarily on the neighbor islands. • $551,000 for improvement of the Menehune ditch. • $800,000 for irrigation management on agribusiness development corporation land. • $224,588 to fund one economist position and two surveys to double local fruit production with the USDA. • $800,000 for a Pesticide Disposal program. Department of the Attorney General • $3,360,000 for raises for deputy attorneys general. • Thirteen new deputy attorneys general positions within the department focusing on areas including human trafficking abatement, public safety, criminal justice, and legislation; and four positions in the department of human services. • $1,635,000 to revitalize the statewide-career criminal and victim witness program. • $114,500 to establish a victim witness support team to assist victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. • $1,588,000 to establish a new office for human trafficking abatement. • $6,750,000 to modernize the aging KEIKI database the Child Support Enforcement Services Division has used since 1998, to a state-of-the-art platform that will increase efficiency and data quality. Department of Budget and Finance • $33,333,334 to leverage federal funds to expand broadband deployment. • $335,068,000 to restore prefunding of other post-employment benefits. Ways and Means (WAM)
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