Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2182, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the Department of Education with the resources for operations and maintenance of facilities, and with flexibility in the construction of new schools.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, the University of Hawaii System, the Hawaii State Student Council, and four individuals. Comments in opposition to this measure were received from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committees find that the language of Senate Bill No. 2956, which crossed over to the House of Representatives, and which creates a school construction special fund and makes appropriations to it, more adequately represents the Committee's inclination with regard to this subject matter.

Your Committees have amended this measure by replacing its contents with S.B. No. 2956, and by changing the effective date to July 1, 2006.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2182, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2182, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.