Bill Text: HI HB2000 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To Education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2022-05-04 - Transmitted to Governor. [HB2000 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2000-Amended.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2000
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1
		C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for the school facilities authority to expand access to pre-kindergarten to eligible children of the State.  The school facilities authority may expend the moneys appropriated in this section on:

     (1)  The construction of new school facilities;

     (2)  The renovation, improvement, and expansion of existing school facilities to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity; and

     (3)  Any other costs the school facilities authority deems appropriate to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity within the State.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the school facilities authority for the purposes of this Act; provided that the appropriation authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided further that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2024, shall lapse as of that date.

     SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.

 

Report Title:

School Facilities Authority; Preschool; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to the school facilities authority to expand access to pre-kindergarten to eligible children.  (CD1)

 

 

 

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