STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1410-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 3026
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
3026, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve public school
facilities by:

     (1)  Establishing the State Educational Facilities Repair
          and Maintenance Special Fund to eliminate the backlog
          of school repair and maintenance projects existing on
          June 30, 2000;

     (2)  Establishing the School Physical Plant Operations and
          Maintenance Special Fund to pay for school repairs and
          cyclical maintenance projects scheduled after June 30,
          2000;

     (3)  Specifying how school repair and maintenance moneys are
          to be prioritized and allocated;

     (4)  Establishing departmental school district business and
          fiscal officers to oversee school facilities planning;

     (5)  Authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds
          for these special funds; and


 
 
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     (6)  Making other related appropriations.

     The Hawaii Association of Realtors testified in support of
this measure.  The Departments of Education, Budget and Finance,
and Accounting and General Services and the Hawaii State Teachers
Association testified in support of the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the business and fiscal officer does
          not have to be a licensed or credentialed teacher; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3026, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3026, S.D.
1, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair