Bill Text: HI HB2466 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Relating To Capital District Buildings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB2466 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2466-Amended.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2466

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO CAPITAL DISTRICT BUILDINGS.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  (a)  There is established the child care at capital district buildings pilot project.  The State shall provide lease space at any capital district building, except Honolulu Hale, for child care facilities to be established.  Enrollment priority shall be for children of state employees who work in the building at which each child care facility is located.  Enrollment shall be open to the general public.

     (b)  The department of accounting and general services shall collaborate with the department of human services to select an appropriate location for the child care facilities within the capital district that ensures best practices for child welfare, health, and safety can be implemented.

     (c)  The department of human services may contract with a private entity to establish and run any child care facility of the pilot project.

     (d)  The pilot project shall cease to exist on June 30, 2030.

     (e)  For the purposes of this Act, "child care facility" shall have the same meaning as in section 346-151, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     SECTION 2.  The department of accounting and general services, in collaboration with the department of human services, shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the regular sessions of 2022, 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030, on the pilot project, including the progress of establishing the child care facilities, the number of children enrolled, and proposed legislation, if any.

     SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the child care at capital district buildings pilot project.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on December 31, 2059, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2030.


 


 

Report Title:

DAGS; Department of Human Services; Child Care; Capital District; Pilot Project; Report; Appropriation

 

Description:

Establishes a pilot project for the State to provide lease space for the establishment of child care facilities at any capital district building, except Honolulu Hale, with enrollment priority for children of state employees who work in the building at which the child care facility is located.  Appropriates funds.  Repeals 6/30/2030.  Effective 12/31/2059.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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