Bill Text: HI SB2452 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation; School Children

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-23 - (S) The conference committee deferred the measure. [SB2452 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2452-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1164-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2452

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2452, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that students have a safe, efficient means to travel to school.  This bill requires the Department of Education (DOE), to the extent that funds are available, to provide or subsidize the cost of suitable transportation to and from public schools for students in kindergarten to grade 12 and in special education classes, except for students who attend public schools in the Honolulu (third) departmental school district. 

 

     The Hawaii School Bus Association and Gomes School Bus Service, Ltd., testified in support of this bill.  DOE and several concerned individuals provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Authorizing, rather than mandating, DOE to provide or subsidize the cost of suitable school transportation;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2452, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2452, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair