Report Title:

Revenue Bonds; Drug Rehab and Parole Violation Center

 

Description:

Authorizes special purpose revenue bonds to construct a 750-bed drug rehabilitation and parole violation center for men and women to be located in Halawa on Oahu. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

3051

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to bonds.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there are insufficient drug rehabilitation and parole violation facilities on Oahu. The construction of a 750-bed drug rehabilitation and parole violation center for men and women in Halawa on Oahu would provide appropriate accommodations.

The legislature finds and declares that the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds under this Act is in the public interest and for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the State.

SECTION 2. Pursuant to part II, chapter 39A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the department of budget and finance, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to issue special purpose revenue bonds in a total amount not to exceed $20,000,000, in one or more series, for the purpose of assisting the Education and Health Centers of America – Hawaii, Inc., a Hawaii corporation, for construction of a 750-bed drug rehabilitation and parole violation center for men and women in Halawa, Oahu. The legislature hereby finds and determines that a drug rehabilitation and parole violation center constitutes a project as defined in part II, chapter 39A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the financing thereof is assistance to health care facilities enterprise.

SECTION 3. The special purpose revenue bonds and the refunding special purpose revenue bonds issued under this Act shall be issued pursuant to part II, chapter 39A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the power to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist health care facilities enterprises.

SECTION 4. The department of budget and finance is authorized, from time to time, including times subsequent to June 30, 2005, to issue special purpose revenue bonds in whatever principal amounts the department shall determine to be necessary to refund the special purpose revenue bonds authorized in section 2 and to refund special purpose revenue bonds authorized in this section, regardless of whether the outstanding special purpose revenue bonds or refunding special purpose revenue bonds have matured or are the subject of redemption or whether the refunding special purpose revenue bonds shall be bonds for the multi-project programs described in section 2. In making this determination, the department shall comply with federal law relating to the exemption from federal income taxation of the interest on bonds of the nature authorized by this section.

SECTION 5. The authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds under this Act shall lapse on June 30, 2005.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.