REPORT TITLE:
Education; Funds Carryover/Transfer


DESCRIPTION:
Retains and carries over up to 5 percent of appropriations for
EDN 150 (comprehensive school support services program) - limited
to funds already distributed to schools.  Requires the department
of education to submit a report, regarding the carryover of
funds, to the director of finance ninety days after the close of
each fiscal year and prepared in the form prescribed by the
director.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 37-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "§37-41.5 Department of education; carryover of funds.  (a)
 
 4 The department of education may retain up to five per cent of any
 
 5 appropriation, except for appropriations to fund financing
 
 6 agreements entered into in accordance with chapter 37D, for the
 
 7 school-based budgeting program EDN 100 and for the comprehensive
 
 8 school support services program EDN 150, where the appropriation
 
 9 has been allocated or distributed to the schools, at the close of
 
10 a fiscal year [and the].  The funds retained shall not lapse
 
11 until June 30 of the first fiscal year of the next fiscal
 
12 biennium.  The department of education shall submit:
 
13      (1)  A report to the director of finance[, by] ninety days
 
14           after the close of [the first] each fiscal year,
 
15           [identifying] which shall be prepared in the form
 
16           prescribed by the director of finance and shall
 
17           identify the total amount of funds that will carry over
 
18           to the [second] next fiscal year; and
 
19      (2)  A copy of this report to the legislature, as well as a
 

 
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 1           report identifying the carryover of funds on a school-
 
 2           by-school basis, at least twenty days prior to the
 
 3           convening of the next regular session of the
 
 4           legislature.
 
 5      (b)  Any appropriation retained in accordance with this
 
 6 section shall be used exclusively for the school-based budgeting
 
 7 program EDN 100[,] and the comprehensive school support services
 
 8 program EDN 150, and of those appropriations allocated to the
 
 9 schools, funds shall remain within the budget of the school to
 
10 which they were originally allocated; provided that the retention
 
11 of an appropriation shall not be used by the department as a
 
12 basis for reducing a school's future budget requirements. [For
 
13 the purposes of this chapter, "EDN 100" means the budget program
 
14 identification number for the school-based budgeting program
 
15 within the department of education.]"
 
16      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
17 New statutory material is underscored.
 
18      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.