Bill Text: HI SB1083 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation of School Children; Contracts; Wage Certification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 258, 7/2/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1361). [SB1083 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1083-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 243

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1083

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1083 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend section 103-55(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make wage certification inapplicable to contracts to provide transportation services for school children.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that student transportation costs have escalated in recent years.  In November 2012, the Student Bus Transportation Study Final Report commissioned by the Department of Education found that, among other things, statutory compensation requirements on transportation contracting services have a direct impact on the costs and efficiency of the Department of Education's transportation systems because they establish a minimum bus driver salary.  This measure will allow school bus vendors to compete for student transportation contracts without the constraint of complying with labor cost requirements, which would generate significant savings for the State.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1083 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

 

 

 

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