REPORT TITLE:
Education

DESCRIPTION:
Allows the DOE to retain the carryover up to 5% of the
appropriations for EDN 150.  The Comprehensive School Support
Services Program.


 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 37-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "�37-41.5 Department of education; carryover of funds.  (a)
 
 4 The department of education may retain up to five per cent of any
 
 5 appropriation, except for appropriations to fund financing
 
 6 agreements entered into in accordance with chapter 37D, for the
 
 7 school-based budgeting program EDN 100 and for the comprehensive
 
 8 school support services program EDN 150 at the close of a fiscal
 
 9 year and the funds retained shall not lapse until June 30 of the
 
10 first fiscal year of the next fiscal biennium. The department of
 
11 education shall submit:
 
12      (1)  A report to the director of finance[, by] ninety days
 
13           after the close of [the first] each fiscal year, which
 
14           shall be prepared in the form prescribed by the
 
15           director of finance and shall [identifying] identify
 
16           the total amount of funds that will carry over to the
 
17           [second] next fiscal year; and
 
18      (2)  A copy of this report to the legislature, as well as a
 
19           report identifying the carryover of funds on a school-
 

 
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 1           by-school basis, at least twenty days prior to the
 
 2           convening of the next regular session of the
 
 3           legislature.
 
 4      (b)  Any appropriation retained in accordance with this
 
 5 section shall be used exclusively for the school-based budgeting
 
 6 program EDN 100[,] and the comprehensive school support services
 
 7 program EDN 150, and of those appropriations allocated to the
 
 8 schools, funds shall remain within the budget of the school to
 
 9 which they were originally allocated; provided that the retention
 
10 of an appropriation shall not be used by the department as a
 
11 basis for reducing a school's future budget requirements. [For
 
12 the purposes of this chapter, "EDN 100" means the budget program
 
13 identification number for the school-based budgeting program
 
14 within the department of education.]"
 
15      SECTION 2. Section 302A-1301, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
16 amended to read as follows:
 
17      "(b) The department shall not transfer any funds
 
18 appropriated under the school-based budgeting program EDN 100 of
 
19 the state budget except [for] to supplement the comprehensive
 
20 school support services program EDN 150 and to ameliorate
 
21 unforeseeable circumstances that pose a threat to the health and
 
22 safety of personnel and students, and subject to approval by the
 
23 governor and notification to the legislature.
 

 
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 1      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 2 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 3      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon approval
 
 4 
 
 5                           INTRODUCED BY: ________________________
 

 
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