STAND. COM. REP. NO.2704

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2738

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2738 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL BUS FARES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to deposit school bus fares into a special fund and to pay for the operating costs of school buses from that special fund.

Your Committee finds that creation of a special fund for school bus fares will enable the Department of Education to account for a source of funds that was previously collected by contractors and to avoid exceeding the student transportation services program general fund appropriation.

Your Committee has amended this measure by establishing a revolving fund and by making technical nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2738, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2738, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair