STAND. COM. REP. 2770

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2478

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2478, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Education to assess and collect impact fees by intergovernmental agreement with a county, as fair share contributions of developers for the construction of state public school facilities.

In addition, this measure:

(1) Creates a new state educational facilities impact fee trust fund for the Department of Education to deposit and expend impact fees to plan, design, acquire land for, and construct specific state educational facilities identified in a needs assessment study prepared by the Department of Education;

(2) Allows the counties to assess, collect, and transfer to the Department of Education impact fees it collects pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement; and

(3) Allows the Land Use Commission to impose conditions in its decisions on boundary amendment petitions requiring fair share contributions for the Department of Education.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency.

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. 2478, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2478, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair