STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1354

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 119
                                     S.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No.
119, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE,
     AND IMPROVEMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow school-level minor
repairs and maintenance accounts to be used for minor
improvements, to increase the amount of these accounts to $20,000
per school, and to allow principals to hire the Department of
Accounting and General Services to perform these services.

     In addition, this bill:

     (1)  Changes the name of school-level minor repairs and
          maintenance accounts to "school-level minor repairs,
          maintenance, and improvements accounts";

     (2)  Prevents unencumbered or unexpended funds in these
          accounts from lapsing into the general fund at the
          close of each fiscal year;

     (3)  Exempts expenditures and transfers from these accounts
          from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code (chapter 103D,
          Hawaii Revised Statutes); and


 
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     (4)  Requires the Department of Accounting and General
          Services to submit a report of expenditures and
          transfers made by the schools and the Department of
          Accounting and General Services to the Legislature, by
          departmental school district.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent
of this bill from the Department of Education and the Department
of Accounting and General Services.  Testimony in support of this
bill was received from the Hawaii State Teachers Association.

     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.
119, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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