CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 118
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 1814
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1814, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Education to assess and collect impact fees as fair share contributions of developers for state public school facilities construction.
Your Committee on Conference finds that the Department of Education has been struggling with funding its various construction projects. Although there have been some advances in alleviating the number of the department's growing projects, other methods of funding are needed. An alternative approach to a funding mechanism would be authorizing the department to assess and collect impact fees by intergovernmental agreement with a county, as fair share contributions of developers for public school facilities construction.
Upon further consideration, your Committee on Conference replaced the measure's contents from authorizing the department to collect impact fees to creating a school impact fee working group to perform an overview of alternative financing methods for school construction. Further amendments include appropriating $150,000 for the working group and correcting the effective date.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1814, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1814, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Co-Chair |
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Co-Chair |
____________________________ RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ EZRA R. KANOHO, Co-Chair |
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Co-Chair |
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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Co-Chair