STAND. COM. REP. NO.664-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2480

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2480 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL BUS FARES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a School Bus Fare Special Fund (Special Fund) into which school bus fares collected by schools from students, parents, or guardians are to be deposited.

Moneys in the Special Fund will be used for the operation of State-contracted school bus services.

The Department of Education supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting additional language to establish the Special Fund; and

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

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. 2480, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2480, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair