STAND. COM. REP. NO. 187-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2040
                                     H.D. 1




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.
2040 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $800,000, to the
Department of Education for the implementation of the Safety Risk
Management Alliance Pilot Program.

     The program will include the hiring of retired police
officers to serve as school safety managers, in order to provide
a comprehensive approach to safe and secure schools.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Department of Education, the Hawaii State Teachers
Association, and three high school students.

     Your Committee finds that the Safety Risk Management
Alliance Pilot Program will allow school safety concerns to be
addressed by professional law enforcement personnel, and allow
school personnel to focus more of their time on carrying out the
mission of the public school system.  The pilot program will help
to prevent minor problems from escalating into major problems,
once discipline and order are restored to troubled school
campuses.  In addition, the pilot program will provide a modicum
of protection to the schools from parents who are more concerned
about the civil rights of their children than the victims of

 
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their children's criminal behavior.  True success will be
achieved when school personnel, including school safety managers,
can move from a crisis response mode to a crisis prevention mode.
For now, however, it is most important to restore order and
discipline to school campuses where fear and intimidation cast a
dark cloud over school personnel and students alike.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the sum appropriated for the Safety Risk
          Management Alliance Pilot Program from $800,000, to $1,
          in order to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making a technical nonsubstantive change for purposes
          of clarity.

     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.
2040, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2040, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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