THE SENATE
                THE TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE
                 REGULAR SESSION OF 2000

    MEASURES DEFERRED TO WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2000

          COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
                        2:00 p.m.
                   Conference Room 212

        DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURES
            (Deferred from February 15, 2000)

SB 2454    RELATING TO SCHOOL SECURITY ATTENDANTS   JDC/EDU, WAM
           Requires the  department  of  public  safety rather
           than the department of  education  to carry out the
           initial and  ongoing  training  of  school security
           attendants   after   6/30/00,    subject   to   the
           availability of  funding.    Appropriates funds for
           the  training  of  security  attendants  for school
           campuses.  (Chun  Oakland,  Kanno,  Tam,  Kawamoto,
           Iwase, Inouye, D. Ige)

(Please note:  The Committee on Judiciary will hold its decision
making on this measure on Friday, February 18, 2000 at 9:00 a.m. in
conference room 229.)


SB 2720    RELATING TO SEX OFFENDERS                HHS/EDU, JDC
           Requires   organizations   providing   services  to
           children  to  check  on  sex  offender registration
           information by telephone  access  before engaging a
           person to work with  the children, and requires the
           Department of Education to do the same. (Kanno)

SB 3033    MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DRUG TREATMENT, COUNSELING,
           AND INTERVENTION SERVICES FOR SUBSTANCE-ABUSING YOUTHS
           AT WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL                   HHS/EDU, WAM
           Makes   an   appropriation   for   drug  treatment,
           counseling, and  intervention  services  at Waipahu
           High School. (Kawamoto)

(Please note:  The Committee on Health and Human Services will hold
its decision making on these measures on Friday, February 18, 2000 at
1:00 p.m. in conference room 229.)


SB 3038    RELATING TO EDUCATION                        EDU, JDC
           Includes under the  department  of education's zero
           tolerance policy, selling,  consuming,  and using a
           dangerous weapon,  switchblade  knife, intoxicating
           liquor, or illicit  drugs  during  school hours, on
           school   premises,   during   department-supervised
           activities, or on off school property. (D. Ige)

SB 2534    RELATING TO ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY            EDU, JDC
           Amends zero tolerance policy by allowing suspension
           of  a  student  who  attends  school  or  a  school
           function while under  the influence of intoxicating
           liquor (Chumbley/Matsunaga)

 


 
SB 2173    RELATING TO SCHOOL SAFETY                    EDU, JDC
           Allows students to be suspended for up to 92 school
           days for criminal assault and related offenses that
           do not involve firearms. (Tanaka (BR))

SB 2458    RELATING TO EDUCATION                        EDU, WAM
           Establishes  Safety   Pilot  Program;  appropriates
           funding (Chun Oakland)

SB 2381    RELATING TO SCHOOL SAFETY                    EDU, JDC
           Requires  courts  to  inform  school  when  adverse
           disposition  or   adjudication   against  minor  is
           entered; requires principals to inform school staff
           of  adverse  disposition   or   adjudication  of  a
           student; requires  school  employees  to  report on
           campus felonies. (Sakamoto)

SB 2388    RELATING TO ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT OF PUBLIC
           EDUCATION                                    EDU, WAM
           Enacts student initiatives in  the areas of teacher
           evaluation;  school   facilities;   a  departmental
           safety office; school security attendants; athletic
           equipment;  computers;  and  co-curricula concerns.
           (Tam)

SB 3079    RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS IN THE FIRST DEGREE 
                                                           EDU, JDC
           Repeals the requirement that school authorities and
           police officers warn or  request  a person to leave
           the premises of  any  public  or private school, if
           the person enters or  remains unlawfully in or upon
           the premises of  the  school,  prior  to having the
           person arrested for  criminal  trespass  in the 1st
           degree. (Mizuguchi (BR)

SB 2996    RELATING TO JUVENILES                        EDU, JDC
           Allows limited accessibility to juvenile records to
           school  officials  and   persons  involved  in  the
           treatment and supervision of minors in the areas of
           child  abuse   and   law   enforcement.    Requires
           notification from  a  court  to  appropriate school
           officials when a minor  has committed any felony or
           misdemeanor  involving  curfew,  gabling,  alcohol,
           drugs, tobacco  products,  carrying  of  weapons, a
           sexual offense found in part V of chapter 707, HRS,
           assault or battery, larceny, vandalism, or graffiti
           (M. Ige)

SB 2042    RELATING TO SCHOOL RECORDS                   EDU, JDC
           Adds a new  section  providing protection from suit
           to any school  for  disclosure  of  records for any
           action of a child that is detrimental to the morals
           or discipline of a school. (D. Ige)


                No testimony will be accepted.

For further information, please call the committee clerk at 586-6230.