Report Title:

School-Level Minor Repairs And Maintenance Revolving Fund

 

Description:

Establishes the school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund to provide moneys for school-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts. Allows an individual whose state income tax liability for any taxable year is $2 or more to designate $2 of the same to be paid over to the revolving fund.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1666

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the repair and maintenance of schools.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Hawaii’s children are our future. Many of our students, however, are being forced to learn in classroom environments that are unacceptable. Peeling paint, broken cabinets, sinks without water, and faulty lighting are just some of the repair and maintenance items the State must address. A run-down classroom or school building directly affects the morale of both teachers and students. The repair and maintenance backlog for Hawaii’s public schools is over $600,000,000 dollars.

The purpose of this Act is to create the Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund. This revolving fund will assist schools in addressing their minor repair and maintenance needs by providing an additional source of funding for the school-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts established by the department of education.

SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§302A-     Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund. There is established within the state treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund, into which shall be deposited all moneys collected pursuant to section 235-102.5, and any other moneys received by the department in the form of appropriations, grants, and donations for school-level minor repairs and maintenance. The revolving fund shall be administered by the department and used to fund the school-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts established pursuant to section 302A-1504."

SECTION 3. Section 302A-1504, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§302A-1504[]] School-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts. (a) The department shall establish school-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts for the use of each public school, which shall not exceed $8,000 per school. The accounts shall be comprised of funds appropriated to the department out of the Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund established pursuant to section 302A-     for school-level minor repairs and maintenance and shall not be used for any other purpose, nor shall any other funds be deposited into the accounts.

(b) Funds in this account shall be expended at the direction of the school principal to contract for minor repairs and maintenance. Any funds appropriated for this purpose that are unencumbered at the close of each fiscal year shall lapse into the [general fund.] Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund.

(c) Each school principal, through the superintendent, shall submit a report annually to the department of accounting and general services on expenditures made from this account."

SECTION 4. Section 235-102.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§235-102.5 Income check-off authorized. (a) Any individual whose state income tax liability for any taxable year is $2 or more may designate $2 of the liability to be paid over to the Hawaii election campaign fund, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, when submitting a state income tax return to the department of taxation. In the case of a joint return of a husband and wife having a state income tax liability of $4 or more, each spouse may designate that $2 be paid to the fund. The director of taxation shall revise the individual state income tax form to allow the designation of contributions to the fund on the face of the tax return and immediately above the signature lines. An explanation shall be included which clearly states that the check-off does not constitute an additional tax liability. If no designation was made on the original tax return when filed, a designation may be made by the individual on an amended return filed within twenty months and ten days after the due date for the original return for such taxable year. A designation once made whether by an original or amended return may not be revoked.

(b) Any individual whose state income tax liability for any taxable year is $2 or more may designate $2 of such liability to be paid over to the Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, when submitting a state income tax return to the department of taxation. In the case of a joint return of a husband and wife having a state income tax liability of $4 or more, each spouse may designate that $2 be paid to the revolving fund. The director of taxation shall revise the individual state income tax return form to allow the designation of contributions to the revolving fund on the face of the tax return and immediately above the signature lines. An explanation shall be included which clearly states that the check-off does not constitute an additional tax liability. If no designation was made on the original tax return when filed, a designation may be made by the individual on an amended return filed within twenty months and ten days after the due date for the original return for such taxable year. A designation once made whether by an original or amended return may not be revoked."

SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the Hawaii school-level minor repairs and maintenance revolving fund of the State of Hawaii the sum of $         , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, to carry out the purposes of this Act. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of the revolving fund.

SECTION 6. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001; provided that section 4 shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2000.

INTRODUCED BY:

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