Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 365 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for the repair and maintenance of state educational facilities.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Education (DOE) and Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS).

This measure is part of the Comprehensive Six Year Plan to Repair and Maintain Public School Facilities in the State of Hawaii that DAGS developed with the DOE. The DOE estimates that the current backlog of repair amounts to $400 million.

The legislature finds that continuous lack of adequate funding for repair and maintenance will multiply and compound the severity of the repair requirements in coming years, resulting in progressive deterioration of plant facilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure on the recommendation of DAGS to increase the amount to $120 million.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 365, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 365, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.