STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2146

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2256

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2256 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Education to adopt rules governing traffic and parking conditions on roadways and other areas under the Department's jurisdiction and establishes the Department of Education parking revolving fund for the deposit of those fees; provided that parking fees collected by schools shall be deposited to the credit of the schools' nonappropriated local school fund accounts.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides a potential additional source of revenue to fund public education and provides the Department of Education with the flexibility to contract for services to implement this measure.

     In response to concerns regarding the establishment of a revolving fund, your Committee has made the following amendments:

     (1)  Directed parking fees assessed and collected by the Department of Education into the same fund into which fees and charges collected for the use of school facilities are deposited, pursuant to section 302A‑1148, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

     (2)  Made a technical, nonsubstantive change for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2256, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2256, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair