Bill Text: HI SB2534 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public School Facilities; Public Land Development Corporation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 309, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1426). [SB2534 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2534-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1628-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2534

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2534, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that students in Hawaii have adequate facilities in which to learn by establishing the School Facilities Special Fund to accept revenue generated from the non-permanent disposition of public school lands and facilities to fund the new construction and upgrade of twenty-first century school facilities and the retrofit and upgrade of existing school facilities.

 

     The Department of Education, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, and Carpenters Union supported this measure.  The Department of Budget and Finance, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, The Pacific Resource Partnership, and Hawaii Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2012; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity.

 

     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. 2534, 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. 2534, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair