Bill Text: HI SB1385 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Education; Public School Lands; Leases; Tax Credit
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB1385 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1385-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 778
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1385
S.D. 2
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1385, 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 maximize the use of public school lands and generate additional revenue to repair and maintain public schools.
The measure accomplishes this objective by establishing a public school lands trust to generate income from the redevelopment of excess and underutilized public school lands and to use those revenues to construct, repair, and retrofit public schools to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century and beyond.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Wil Okabe, President, Hawaii State Teachers Association; and Bill Reeves; Good Beginnings Alliance.
Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Kalbert K. Young, Director, Department of Budget and Finance; and Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo, City Council, City and County of Honolulu.
Your Committee received written comments on this measure from William J. Aila, Jr., Chairperson, Department of Land and Natural Resources; Peter Carlisle, Mayor, City and County of Honolulu; Kathryn S. Matayoshi, Superintendent of Education, Department of Education; and Owen Miyamoto, Hawaii 3R's Program.
Your Committee finds that many school facilities are in dire need of repair, maintenance, and improvement of systems and infrastructure to meet the twenty-first century challenges in technology and education. This measure proposes one option to capture revenues from currently unused or underutilized public school lands that may yield much-needed revenues for Hawaii's schools after redevelopment.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the preliminary study and public hearing for public school trust lands identified for redevelopment are to be conducted by the Public School Lands Trust Commission established by this measure;
(2) Changing all percentages in this measure to unspecified percentages; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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. 1385, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1385, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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