SB2428

Report Title:

OHA; GO Bonds

Description:

Authorizes general obligation bonds for an office of Hawaiian affairs office and cultural center building.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2428
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the construction of an office of Hawaiian affairs office and cultural center building would enhance the office's ability to implement its mission of bettering the conditions of native Hawaiian persons and Hawaiian persons (as the terms "native Hawaiian" and "Hawaiian" are defined in section 10-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes) and would benefit the community at large. The building, to be owned by the office of Hawaiian affairs, would:

(1) Serve as the office's headquarters (including office and meeting space for the office's trustees and other employees);

(2) Showcase native Hawaiian and Hawaiian culture through exhibitions, displays, and events;

(3) Relieve the office of rent obligations that it would otherwise incur for its headquarters;

(4) Offer office and meeting space to other native Hawaiian and Hawaiian organizations and to other organizations; and

(5) House other functions and activities benefiting native Hawaiians, Hawaiians, and the larger community.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate and authorize funds for the planning and design of the building.

SECTION 2. As used in this Act, "means of financing", or "MOF", means the source from which funds are appropriated or authorized, as the case may be, to be expended for the projects specified in this Act. Letter symbols following appropriations have the following meanings:

A: General funds

C: General obligation bond funds

T: Trust funds

SECTION 3. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated in this Act, are appropriated or authorized, as the case may be, from the sources of funding specified to the office of Hawaiian affairs for fiscal year 2006-2007 for the planning and design of the office of Hawaiian affairs office and cultural center building:

M M

O O

F F

Plans $ 100,000C $ 100,000T

Design 1,250,000C 1,250,000T

SECTION 4. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $1,350,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2006-2007, for the planning and design of an office of Hawaiian affairs office and cultural center building.

SECTION 5. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2008, shall lapse as of that date.

SECTION 6. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of Hawaiian affairs for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 7. The office of Hawaiian affairs is authorized to delegate to other state or county agencies the planning, acquisition of land, design, construction, and equipment of any capital improvement project when it is determined by the office to be advantageous to do so.

SECTION 8. The chairperson of the office of Hawaiian affairs shall determine when and the manner in which the authorized capital improvement project shall be initiated. The chairperson shall notify the governor from time to time of the specific amounts required for the project, and the governor shall provide for those amounts through the issuance of bonds authorized in section 4 of this Act or from transfers from the general fund.

SECTION 9. Any law or any provision to the contrary notwithstanding, the chairperson of the office of Hawaiian affairs may supplement funds for any cost element for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act by transferring such sums as may be needed from the funds appropriated for other cost elements of the same project by this Act or by any other prior or future act that have not lapsed, provided that the total expenditure of funds for all cost elements for the project shall not exceed the total appropriation for the project.

SECTION 10. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the Act, which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.

SECTION 11. If any manifest clerical, typographical, or other mechanical error is found in this Act, the chairperson of the office of Hawaiian affairs is authorized to correct the error. All changes made pursuant to this section shall be reported to the legislature at its next session.

SECTION 12. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.

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