Lawmakers Pass ‘Fast Track’ Bills for Med School Funds and University Revenue Bonds

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Lawmakers passed them and now the governor gets to decide if they become law:

  • SenateBill 239, which continues the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s ability to use money from the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Fund to help pay for its operations.
  • Senate Bill 809, which the University of Hawaii’s authorization to issue revenue bonds by $100 million, to a total amount not to exceed $300 million.

    The revenue from these bonds would help fund UH construction projects, which would stimulate the local economy and generate construction jobs.

    UH would still have to make a list of projects and plans it will spend the appropriation on at the various campuses, but we know one of them would be construction of the Culinary Institute at Kapiolani Community College.

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