Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist Hawaii's charter schools with respect to facilities improvement and financial stability.

Specifically, the measure:

Your Committee finds that establishing a Charter Schools Facilities Fund Partnership to encourage public-private collaboration to improve and repair charter school facilities and authorizing the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enter into lease agreements with charter schools to lease lands and buildings under its control for charter school facilities would be a cost-effective means of assisting charter schools in enhancing their learning environments.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 2.