STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1076-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 3328

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3328, 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:

(1) Require the Department of Education to establish, maintain, and operate the State's public education facilities;

(2) Authorize the Department of Education to enter into certain agreements with other departments for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the State's public education facilities;

(3) Clarify that the Superintendent of Education is responsible for the management of the internal improvements of the State's public education facilities;

(4) Establish the Office of Facilities and Real Estate Development and Office of School Operations and Services within the Department of Education;

(5) Establish the Educational Facilities and Real Estate Development Special Fund;

(6) Transfer the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, records, documents, and equipment of the School Facilities Authority to the Department of Education; and

(7) Repeal the School Facilities Authority.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Education; Department of Education; and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO.

Your Committee finds that while the School Facilities Authority has only been in operation for a few years, for purposes of clarity and efficiency, the Department of Education should be the sole agency responsible for establishing, operating, maintaining, repairing, and improving the State's educational facilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 3328, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3328, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Government Operations.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair