Bill Text: HI SB237 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Twenty-first Century Schools; DOE; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 155, on 6/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). [SB237 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB237-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 600

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 237

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 237, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to modernize public school facilities to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.

 

     More specifically, this measure establishes a three-year pilot program to optimize the use of public school lands for public purposes and to generate revenue to build and retrofit twenty-first century schools and create more school-centered communities.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Board of Education, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, IMUAlliance, and one individual.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the considerable amount of underused public school lands is an untapped resource that could be used for needed facilities for public purposes, such as workforce rental housing, which use could result in revenues to provide classrooms, campuses, and communities appropriate and relevant to the twenty-first century.  Your Committee believes that this measure will generate opportunities to improve public school facilities and infrastructure to meet the challenges of educating Hawaii's students for the future and to improve the overall quality of education in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that revenues and proceeds derived by the State shall be deposited in the school facilities special fund established in the measure to be administered by the Department of Education;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 237, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 237, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair