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. 726

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1082

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1082 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide the Department of Education with the flexibility necessary to control student transportation costs.

 

     More specifically, this measure repeals various provisions relating to student transportation eligibility requirements and school bus contracts.

 

     A written comment in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that the high cost of student transportation requires more flexibility and the maximization of resources in the contracting of student transportation.  Accordingly, your Committee believes that repealing the restrictive provisions relating to the contracting of school buses and transportation of students will give the Board of Education the ability to set terms and policies better suited to their needs and current economic conditions.

 

     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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1082, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1082, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair