STAND. COM. REP. NO. 100-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1886
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
1886 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL RECORDS,"


begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to protect from lawsuit any
school that discloses records of a child's action that is
detrimental to the morals or discipline of a school.

     The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii Catholic
Schools Office, and an individual testified in support this bill.
The Department of Education and the Hawaii Association of
Independent Schools testified in support of the intent of the
bill.

     Your Committee finds that School personnel need information
that will help them know how to work with difficult students with
numerous problems.  This bill will enable school staff to work
with problem students, while ensuring that only those who work
directly with the student will be given this confidential
information. 

     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.
1886 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair