STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1235-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3095

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3095, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR A MAINTENANCE BASE YARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to make an emergency appropriation for the Department of Education to build a new maintenance base yard.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that on July 1, 2005, the Department of Education and the Department of Accounting and General Services entered into a memorandum of understanding to supplement the transfer of resources pursuant to Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. This memorandum of understanding included a provision for the Department of Education to use facilities at Shafter Flats to house its maintenance base yard.

Your Committee further finds that the economic downturn in 2020 and the limited amount of available resources resulted in a request made by the Department of Accounting and General Services on June 4, 2021, to have the Department of Education relocate from the Shafter Flats facility by October 2021. The Department of Education has since been looking for a new facility to house its maintenance base yard, which is vital to the Department to continue to service all of its facilities. This measure will provide sufficient funding to the Department of Education to build a new maintenance base yard.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2051; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3095, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3095, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair