STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3228

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1905
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1905, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a pilot project for
the disposition of public school rental fees.

     Your Committee finds that at present, rental fees generated
by use of public school facilities are deposited into a special
fund.  After administrative services are deducted, seventy per
cent of the revenue is credited to the individual school, and
thirty per cent is credited to the district office.  Under this
two-year pilot project, the schools would retain seventy per cent
and the district office would receive the remaining thirty per
cent to assist schools that service type 1 and type 2 users.

     Type 1 users are school-related uses, such as Parent,
Teacher and Student Associations and the A+ Program, and primary
and general elections.  Type 2 users are other community-service
based organizations, such as federal, state, and county agencies,
youth athletic teams, and private pre- and after-school programs
endorsed by the Department of Education.  The Department of
Education would set the rental rates for the type 1 and type 2
users, and the schools would set the rates for all other users.

 
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     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 H.B. No.
1905, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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