STAND. COM. REP. NO. 994

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1132

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1132 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to broaden the Department of Education's (DOE) authority over capital improvement projects by:

(1) Establishing the Education Design and Construction Project Assessment Fund (Assessment Fund);

(2) Moving the authority to expend funds from the State Educational Facilities Improvement Special Fund from the Department of Accounting and General Services to DOE;

(3) Moving the state educational facilities repair and maintenance account from Program ID 100 to Program ID 400 for ease of administration;

(4) Making DOE responsible for school repair and maintenance and capital improvement programs; and

(5) Appropriating funds to the Assessment Fund.

DOE testified in support of this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Removing the requirement that the Superintendent's assessments on construction projects be based on a logarithmic curve;

(2) Clarifying that DOE's authority over the operation and maintenance of capital improvement and repair and maintenance programs pertains specifically to DOE and school facilities;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to encourage further discussion; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 H.B. No. 1132, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair