Report Title:

State buildings and facilities

 

Description:

Creates a system to build in future repair and maintenance costs into current budgeting.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2632

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to the repair and maintenance of state facilities.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that recent years, including this one, has seen the issue of repair and maintenance of various state buildings and facilities highlighted in the public eye.  Whether it is public housing, school buildings, facilities at the University of Hawai`i, state harbors, Aloha Stadium, the airport, or other state buildings or facilities, the issue is the same, repair and maintenance is needed.  However, even if it were realistic to appropriate the tens of billions of dollars needed to repair and renovate all of the state buildings and facilities that need it, the cause of the neglect would still be there – the lack of dedicated funding or planning for repair and maintenance costs.

     Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to create a means whereby a portion of new funds appropriated for new construction or renovation of state buildings and facilities is set aside for eventual repair and maintenance costs, pursuant to the recommendations of professional facility management organizations.  Also, this Act diverts a portion of bond revenues for a set period of time to address the backlog of repair and maintenance of state buildings and facilities.  It is hoped that over time, as more buildings and facilities are renovated or constructed, and funds set aside, that the funds set aside will finance future repairs and maintenance until the end of the useful life of the building or facility.

     SECTION 2.  The Hawaii Revised Statutes is amended by adding a new chapter to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

Chapter

repair and maintenance of state facilities

     §A-1 Repair and maintenance special fund.  (a)  There is created a repair and maintenance special fund into which shall be transferred three per cent of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction cost element; provided that this transfer shall apply only to capital improvement appropriations that are designated for the construction or renovation of state buildings.

     (b)  The repair and maintenance special fund shall be used solely for the purpose of costs related to the repair and maintenance of state buildings and facilities.

     (c)  The three per cent amount, which is included in all capital improvement appropriations, shall be calculated at the time the appropriation bills are signed into law.  Sub-accounts in the repair and maintenance special fund shall be created for each building or facility identified by a legislative appropriation after the effective date of this Act.  The moneys shall be transferred into the repair and maintenance special fund and directed into the respective sub-account for a specific building or facility upon availability of the moneys from the appropriations.

     §A-2 Database; prioritization.    (a)  The comptroller shall compile a database that inventories all state buildings and facilities.  Information included in the database shall include such items of information as, but not be limited to, useful remaining lifespan, major and minor repairs needed, appropriations authorized to repair and maintain, and appropriations encumbered to repair and maintain.  To the extent possible, the department of education and the University of Hawaii shall compile and share information with the comptroller in order to complete the database.

     (b)  The comptroller shall create a prioritization system for repair and maintenance based upon the information compiled in the database, and shall prioritize expenditures from the various sub-accounts of the repair and maintenance fund accordingly.

     §A-3 Expenditures. Expenditures from the repair and maintenance special fund shall be made by the comptroller.

     §A-4 Repairs and maintenance of buildings and facilities; backlogged repairs and maintenance.     (a)  Three per cent of general obligation bond and revenue bond moneys borrowed in fiscal years 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, shall be transferred into the repair and maintenance special fund created by this chapter.  These funds shall be dedicated to the repair and maintenance of state buildings or facilities without a sub-account created by §A-1, and such funds shall be spent for the repair or maintenance of such state buildings or facilities.

     (b)  Expenditures of these funds by the comptroller shall be prioritized according to the prioritization system created in §A-2.  Sub-accounts in the repair and maintenance special fund for a specific building or facility repaired or maintained by these funds shall be created upon the completion of all repairs and maintenance by funds expended pursuant to this section.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.

 

 

 

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