HAWAII

http://hawaii.gov/gov/recovery

As of October 13, 2009: 

Agency Reported Data:

 

Rank:

Funds Announced

$1,390,426,519

42

Funds Available

$992,205,115

45

Funds Paid Out

$330,330,048

43

 

 

 

Recipient Reported Data:

 

Rank:

Number of Awards

85

24

Funds Awarded

$122,426,923

28

Funds Awarded Per Capita

$95

11

Funds Received

$12,541,719

34

Jobs Created / Saved

250

32

Unemployment Rate

7.2

36


Notes: All Rankings are from Highest to Lowest.  For example, a ranking of 15 for “Funds Announced” means that the state had the 15th highest amount of funds announced. A ranking of 15 for the unemployment rate means that this state has the 15th highest unemployment rate.       

Terms defined by http://www.recovery.gov/

Recipient Reported Data: These data are based on data submitted by federal contract recipients to www.federalreporting.gov between Oct. 1 and Oct. 10, 2009.  On Oct. 30, 2009, the final recipient federal contract data and the final data on grants and loans will be available. It is collected and updated quarterly.

Agency Reported Data: These data are based on weekly Financial and Activity Reports filed by federal agencies receiving Recovery Act Funds.

Funds Announced: Funds that have been publicly announced as available to entities outside of the federal government.  Not all available funds are announced publicly. For example, the funds going to a project started prior to the Recovery Act that are commingled with the project’s Recovery funds will not be announced publicly before being made available to a recipient.  The Funds Announced figure should not be viewed as the total funding that an agency has made available.

Funds Available (Obligation): The term used to describe when an agency informs the public of the release of money to recipients either immediately or in the future.  

Funds Awarded: This is the amount of contract dollars that will be made available to recipients. 

Funds Paid Out: Funds that have been released from a federal agency to a recipient. 

Funds Received: The amount of money each recipient received from a federal award. 

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Executive Branch

Barry Fukunaga, the governor’s chief of staff, has been put in charge of coordinating the stimulus fund dispersal. The governor has formed a committee to decide where the money will go and Fukunaga heads the committee. The committee will include representatives from various departments.

State Certification Letters

Press releases

Contact
Barry Fukunaga
Chief of Staff
State Capitol
Executive Chambers
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 586-0034

Legislative Branch

The House speaker’s office indicated that the House Finance Committee would take the lead within the legislative body. 

Legislation related to ARRA 

  • The Legislature passed a resolution (HCR 148) that urges the state to lead a coordinated effort by the health care and technology communities to ensure that Hawaii is able to rapidly respond to and qualify for grant money offered in the stimulus bill for health care information exchange technology.

  • Passed House:  HB 1184: This bill creates expedited procedures to allow the state to immediately take full advantage of the funding provided in the stimulus package.   The purpose of the bill is to provide temporary exemptions from current statutes relating to procurement, rule-making, and employment, to allow the State to expedite the implementation or expansion of programs, services, and benefits authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It is not the intent of the legislature to provide permanent exemptions to the governing statutes, and this Act shall be applied only to expediting the expenditure of federal funds authorized in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or to expending the matching state funds, if any, required to access the federal funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Similar legislation (SB 21) has passed the Senate.

  • Passed House: HB 1782: As part of an effort to expand the use of health information technology, the bill would establish the office to coordinate health information technology within the Department of Health in order to coordinate local efforts, identify funding sources, integrate health program, and work towards participation in the national health information technology network.

  • Passes House: HB 1829: This bill directs the state director of finance to release funds for county projects required to match funds counties are to recieve from the federal stimulus program within 15 days of receipt of federal funds; and to release funds for state projects required to match funds the state is to receive from the federal stimulus program within 30 days of receipt of federal funds.

  • HB 281: In order to prepare for the federal funding focusing on the creation of a clean energy economy and green technology, the bill identifies and develops a framework for action to seek partnerships and opportunities to address the need for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of an emerging green economy sector developed through the stimulus bill.

  • HB 1807 and SB 1381: The purpose of these bills is to enable Hawaii to receive and use moneys under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and any later federal laws for drinking water or wastewater infrastructure

  • SB 1205: This bill creates a temporary health insurance program, to be funded only by stimulus money, to help unemployed persons maintain health care coverage

Contact
Marcus O. Oshiro
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 306
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 586-6200  

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