Bill Text: HI SB2828 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School Impact Fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Act 188, 7/5/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 651). [SB2828 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2828-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2458

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2828

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2828, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the calculation and determination of school impact fees for financing new construction or expanding existing Department of Education schools or facilities.

 

     Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires the Department of Education to update and use current data to calculate impact fees;

 

     (2)  Requires the amount of land component impact fees to be based upon each new residential development's proportionate share of the need to provide new public school sites and to avoid inconsistent fees among other developments;

 

     (3)  Clarifies the definition of impact fees and other related terms;

 

     (4)  Clarifies the analysis required to set and maintain adequate school impact fees;

 

     (5)  Provides a formula to calculate the land component and construction cost impact fee; and

 

     (6)  Clarifies the use of credits for excess contributions of impact fees.

 

     Your Committee finds that school impact fees are necessary if developers are to contribute to the need for adequate public schools and facilities needed by people residing in homes and communities built by the developer.  Your Committee also finds that interested stakeholders have been working diligently to resolve school impact fee issues.  Your Committee believes that clarifying and strengthening the current school impact fee laws will result in the equitable imposition of school impact fees and benefit all of the interested parties.

 

     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. 2828, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair