Bill Text: HI SB1082 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation of School Children; Contracting Provisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 257, 7/2/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1360). [SB1082 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1082-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1058

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1082

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

                The purpose of this measure is to provide greater flexibility to the Department of Education in the contracting of student transportation by repealing certain statutory regulations pertaining to student transportation including, among other things:

 

     (1)  Factors the Department must consider when developing transportation policy, procedures, and programs;

 

     (2)  Requirements related to school bus contract extensions and school bus contractor compensation; and

 

     (3)  Specified limits on the age of school bus vehicles and requirements for periodic refurbishment.

 

     The Department of Education and Board of Education supported this bill.  The Acting State Auditor provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair