STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1505

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1132

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expedite capital improvement projects for and the repair and maintenance of public school facilities.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Creates an Education Design and Construction Project Assessment Fund in the Department of Education;

(2) Provides for the orderly transfer of functions relating to capital improvement and maintenance and repair projects from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Education;

(3) Increases the amount of money deposited into the State Educational Facilities Improvement Special Fund; and

(4) Establishes the Department of Education's authority to impose and collect impact fees from developers of residential developments.

Your Committee finds that the capital improvements project backlog for the Department of Education is $3,000,000,000, while the repair and maintenance backlog is estimated at $500,000,000.

Further Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, required the transfer of many of the functions of the Department of Accounting and General Services relating to capital improvements and repair and maintenance of the public school facilities to the Department of Education.

Your Committee believes that this measure will facilitate the expeditious provision of capital improvement projects and repair and maintenance projects by centralizing the responsibility for the provision of these very much needed projects. Further, this measure will provide the Department of Education with more fiscal resources to accomplish this task and establishes a new source of fiscal resources by authorizing the Department of Education to impose and collect impact fees from real estate developments of residential units.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amounts to be appropriated by sections 10 and 22 to $1 to facilitate further discussion on this matter; and

(2) 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 H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1132, H.D. 1, 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