Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2330 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable home-schooled children to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities at the school to which they would be assigned by the Department of Education (DOE) if they attended public school.

The Office of the Governor submitted testimony in support of this bill. DOE supported the intent of this bill. The Hawaii State Teachers Association and two individuals opposed this bill.

Your Committee finds that home-schooled students are not able to participate in organized school activities such as athletics, clubs, and social functions. However, your Committee also recognizes concerns raised regarding home-schooled students taking part in these activities. For instance, there is currently no mechanism for ensuring that home-schooled students are meeting the academic standards that are imposed on public school students.

Accordingly, 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. 2330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2330, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.