STAND. COM. REP. NO. 585-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2451
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2451 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE
     SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to finance future repairs and
maintenance of state facilities by:
     
     (1)  Creating a Repairs and Maintenance Special Fund
          (Special Fund); and

     (2)  Depositing into the Special Fund one and one-half
          percent of all general obligation bond and state
          educational facilities improvement special fund
          appropriations for capital improvements designated for
          the construction cost element.

     Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by the
Department of Budget and Finance and the Department of Education.
Comments were submitted by the Judiciary.

     Your Committee finds that the Judiciary does not have the
number and the volume of construction projects as other executive
branch agencies.  Therefore, even if the Judiciary received the
full one and one-half percent allocation, the Judiciary would
receive funds far less than needed for its repair and maintenance
responsibilities under this Special Fund.

 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the Judiciary is excluded from this
          Special Fund; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes
          of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2451, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2451, H.D. 1, and
be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair