REPORT TITLE:
DOE Repair and Maintenance $


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2000-20001 to begin
addressing the $260,000,000 backlog in repair and maintenance
projects for the department of education.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                             
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2095
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                     
STATE OF HAWAII                                                 
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ADDRESS THE $260,000,000 BACKLOG IN
   REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE PROJECTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
   EDUCATION.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that an alarming number of
 
 2 Hawaii public school facilities are decrepit, dilapidated, and
 
 3 deteriorated.  These conditions pose potential safety and health
 
 4 risks for Hawaii students, who are the future of this State.
 
 5 Thus, the intent of the legislature is to set aside the funds
 
 6 needed to repair and maintain Hawaii public school facilities in
 
 7 order to establish, for all Hawaii students, a safe and healthy
 
 8 environment that is conducive to learning and to fostering school
 
 9 pride.
 
10      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate $50,000,000 as the
 
11 first of approximately five appropriations to be made over the
 
12 next five years to address the $260,000,000 backlog in repair and
 
13 maintenance projects for the department of education.
 
14      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
15 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $50,000,000, or so
 
16 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001, to
 
17 begin addressing the $260,000,000 backlog in repair and
 
18 maintenance projects for the department of education.
 
19      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 

 
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 1 department of accounting and general services for the purposes of
 
 2 this Act.
 
 3      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.
 
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 5                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 
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