Bill Text: HI SB2349 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Educational Facilities Improvement Special Fund; Repeal; Constitutional Amendment

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to EDN, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2349 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2349-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2569

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2349

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2349 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO THE STATE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT SPECIAL FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii that would repeal the state educational facilities improvement special fund's exemption from the requirement that monies appropriated from the fund be lapsed after three years.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committees find that S.B. No. 2348, Regular Session of 2012 (S.B. No. 2348), proposes to repeal the state educational facilities improvement special fund.  The constitutional amendment proposed in this measure is necessary for housekeeping purposes in the event the state educational facilities improvement special fund is repealed.  Your Committees encourage further discussion on this measure and S.B. No. 2348, as both measures progress through the Legislature.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2349, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2349, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair