Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1092 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities at the public school to which they would be assigned if they attended public school.

The Department of Education (DOE) and an individual submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee finds that home-schooled students currently do not have access to the types of activities offered in public schools. This bill would allow these students, whose parents pay state taxes, to enjoy the same range of activities enjoyed by public school students. However, your Committee does note that DOE needs time to adopt rules and establish the necessary information systems to implement the provisions of this bill.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1092, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.