Appropriates out of, and expands from, the state educational facilities improvement special fund the sum of $5,000,000, for each fiscal year until 6/30/2010, to provide public schools with their necessary technology infrastructure.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 36-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§36-32 State educational facilities improvement special fund. (a) There is created in the treasury of the State the state educational facilities improvement special fund, into which shall be deposited a portion of all general excise tax revenues collected by the department of taxation under section 237-31. The special fund shall be used solely to plan, design, acquire lands for, and [to] construct public school facilities; and to provide equipment and technology infrastructure to improve public schools and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the department of education, except public libraries. In addition, activities of the department of education intended to eliminate the gap between the facility needs of schools and available resources shall be eligible for funding from the special fund. Expenditures from the special fund shall be limited to projects authorized by the legislature and shall be subject to sections 37-31, and 37-33 through 37-40. Appropriations or authorizations from the special fund shall be expended by the comptroller.

(b) The department of accounting and general services shall submit an annual report to the legislature, which shall include a financial statement of the special fund and the status of projects undertaken pursuant to this section, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session.

(c) Beginning July 1, 2001, there is appropriated out of, and shall be expended from, the special fund the sum of $5,000,000, for each fiscal year until June 30, 2010, to provide public schools with their necessary technology infrastructure. The sums appropriated under this subsection shall be expended by the department of accounting and general services.

(d) All interest income earned or accrued on moneys deposited into the special fund shall become a part of the special fund and shall be used solely to provide public schools with their necessary technology infrastructure.

(e) For the purposes of this section, the term "technology infrastructure" includes computer products and facilities needed to utilize modern data, voice, and video technology."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.