STAND. COM. REP. NO.1322

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 1577

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1577, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds and establish guidelines for the repair and maintenance backlog of public schools including:

(1) Establishing the School Physical Plant Operations and Maintenance Special Fund to pay for normal school repairs and preventive maintenance projects scheduled after June 30, 2001;

(2) Establishing the State Educational Facilities Repair and Maintenance Special Fund to eliminate the backlog of projects existing on June 30, 2000;

(3) Specifying how school repairs and maintenance are to be prioritized and moneys allocated; and

(4) Providing for the establishment of 18 business and fiscal officers to oversee school facilities planning.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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 S.B. No. 1577, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1577, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair