Bill Text: HI SB2124 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Restoration of Instructional Days; Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-25 - (S) Act 143, 5/25/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 601). [SB2124 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2124-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2029
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2124
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Education and Housing and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2124 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate Hawaii hurricane relief funds to restore all remaining lost instructional days for the 2009-2010 school year that have been negotiated pursuant to the collective bargaining process established under chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two private organizations and one individual. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by two state agencies, three private organizations, and one individual. Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Information from the Department of Education indicates that it costs approximately $5,766,657 per day to operate Hawaii's public schools. This amount includes essential and other teachers' and school employees' salaries and fringe benefits, school utility costs, and student transportation costs for both charter and non-charter schools. Based on that information, your Committees find that an appropriation of $36,000,000 in Hawaii hurricane relief funds should be adequate to restore some or all, as the case may be, of the remaining lost instructional days for the 2009-2010 school year. Your Committees further find that charter schools have also sustained a reduction of $3,791,952 and that charter schools should be allocated a portion of the $36,000,000 appropriation to alleviate the impact of reductions to charter schools.
Your Committees also find it appropriate to temporarily remove the language indicating the Governor's recommendation for immediate passage of the measure, with the recommendation that this language be re-inserted prior to final reading, in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure as follows:
(1) By removing section 1, which indicates the Governor's recommendation for immediate passage of the measure;
(2) By changing the amount of the appropriation of Hawaii hurricane relief funds from $50,000,000 to $36,000,000;
(3) By providing that a proportionate amount on a per-pupil basis of the $36,000,000 appropriation be allocated to charter schools; and
(4) By making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2124, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2124, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Commerce and Consumer Protection,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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