STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 520-26
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2026
RE: H.B. No. 2397
H.D. 1
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2026
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2397 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the School Facilities Authority; Hawaiʻi Children's Action Network Speaks!; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.
Your Committee
finds that the school impact fee program was established to ensure that new
residential development contributes to the public infrastructure it
necessitates. However, school impact
fees have largely remained unexpended.
This measure will
expand the State's pre-kindergarten and public charter school capacity by
authorizing the transfer from the school impact fees subaccount of the school
facilities special fund for the acquisition and renovation of one or more
buildings in the downtown Honolulu area.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000; and
(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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 H.B. No. 2397, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2397, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair |
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