STAND. COM. REP. NO. 193-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2039

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Housing and Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2039 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to review all of the school consolidation studies completed within the last ten years, conduct a feasibility analysis of repurposing any school facility that was subject to a consolidation study as a sanctuary for vulnerable populations, and submit a report to the Legislature on its findings.

The Department of Education offered comments for this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Health & Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2039, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2039, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Health & Human Services,

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair