STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2155

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2731

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2731 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a school impact fee review task force to review the law regarding school impact fees and recommend necessary amendments.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 245, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, established the law regarding school impact fees, including new methods of financing the development of new educational facilities and the expansion of existing facilities.  Since 2007, land use planning, development patterns, and preferences have changed significantly.  School impact fee laws were amended in 2010, but it is possible that further substantive amendments are needed.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2731 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

 

 

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair