Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1671 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funds for the construction of new public school facilities.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii. The Department of Accounting and General Services, State Procurement Office, and Department of Taxation submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that although there is a long list of backlog school construction projects, the large gap between the amount needed each year and the amount actually appropriated remains. Alternative sources of funding need to be explored. This measure contains provisions that will assist the department in reducing the backlog of projects.

Your Committee further finds that exemptions to chapters 42F, 103, and 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes are not necessary and has amended the measure to delete those provisions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1671, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1671, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.