Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 50 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the Department of Education to ensure full compliance with that portion of the administrative rules that calls for "appropriate intervention and treatment services" for students excluded from school due to "possession of a dangerous weapon, switchblade knife, intoxicating liquor, or illicit drugs."

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association.

Your Committees find that students excluded from school due to possession of a dangerous weapon, switchblade knife, intoxicating liquor, or illicit drugs should receive appropriate intervention and treatment services to correct anti-social and destructive behavior. Currently students who are removed from school are all too often left on their own, without direction, supervision, or any type of remedial guidance. Such students need to receive some types of services from their school or an appropriate agency to address the causes of the dangerous and harmful behavior they have displayed. An effective alternative for dealing with these students and their problems needs to be implemented before such conduct becomes an even bigger problem in our schools.

Your Committees have amended the measure by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 50, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 50, S.D. 1.