STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1523

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1660

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1660, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the quality of the State's school facilities by:

(1) Creating the Education Design and Construction Project Assessment Fund within the Department of Education (DOE);

(2) Broadening DOE's authority over capital improvement projects; and

(3) Appropriating funds to initiate and carry through these projects.

DOE supported this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1660, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair