Report Title:
Education; Home Schooling; Extracurricular Activities
Description:
Allows home schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities in public schools in the district they reside in; requires them to have health insurance and sign waiver of liability to participate; requires DOE to adopt rules. (SD1)
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
566 |
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TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001 |
S.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that extracurricular activities such as band, theater, athletics, and other activities offered by department of education school help our young people to become better, well-rounded students, allows young people to learn to interact with other young people in their community, and to become involved in their community.
The legislature recognizes that some students and their parents or legal guardians in our State have decided to educate their children at home. As of January 2001, the department of education reported that the number of students who have declared home schooling was 5,840. These parents or guardians contribute taxes from which our public schools are financed and therefore these students are entitled to participate in the extracurricular activities offered by the public schools in the district in which they reside.
The purpose of this Act is to allow home schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities in public schools in the district they reside in.
SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Extracurricular activities of home schooled students. (a) The department shall establish a program allowing a home schooled student to participate in any extracurricular activity provided by the public school in the district in which the student resides; provided that a home schooled student wishing to participate in any extracurricular activity offered by a public school shall:
(1) Meet the same medical requirements needed for admission to that public school by other public school students;
(2) Meet the minimum requirements needed to participate in that activity;
(3) Provide proof of having health insurance to cover injuries that may arise from the extracurricular activity in amounts not less than required under chapter 393;
(4) Have signed, on the student's behalf by the parent or guardian, a waiver of liability absolving the department of liability for personal injury or death, or both;
(5) Pay a reasonable fee to the department based on cost; and
(6) Have passed the previous grade as determined by department or home school standards, as applicable.
(b) The department shall adopt rules under chapter 91 to implement and administer this section."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.