REPORT TITLE:
School Playground Equipment


DESCRIPTION:
Prohibits the DOE and DAGS from removing playground equipment
from school grounds without replacing the same unless the failure
to remove the playground equipment would constitute gross
negligence on the part of the State.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.1423       
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FROM SCHOOL
   GROUNDS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated
 
 3 and to read as follows:
 
 4      "§302A-     Removal of playground equipment from school
 
 5 grounds.  Neither the department of education nor the department
 
 6 of accounting and general services shall remove playground
 
 7 equipment from school grounds without replacing the same unless
 
 8 the failure to remove the playground equipment would constitute
 
 9 gross negligence on the part of the State."
 
10      SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.
 
11      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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13                           INTRODUCED BY:_________________________