STAND. COM. REP. 2249
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2063
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2063 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to hold public school students accountable financially for loss or damage to textbooks.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association.
This measure would authorize the principal or a designee to retain fees for the loss, destruction, breakage, or damage of school textbooks, instructional materials, library books, equipment, or supplies. Authorizing principals to collect such fees would provide an incentive for students to take better care of the school's limited resources.
Your Committee has amended the measure by:
(1) Expanding the definition of "textbooks and instructional materials" to include "textbooks, instructional materials, library books, equipment, or supplies" for the entire chapter; and
(2) Eliminating requirements for rulemaking under chapter 91 in relation to accounts mentioned in the measure.
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 S.B. No. 2063, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2063, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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