STAND. COM. REP. 3348
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.C.R. No. 50
S.D. 1
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:
"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING 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","
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:
(1) Adding a paragraph reading "while the Department of Health currently funds substance abuse school-based treatment in thirty of forty-three public high schools and two of fifty-six middle schools, more intensive (i.e. residential) services would require additional resources"; and
(2) Urging the Department of Education to ensure full compliance with that portion of the administrative rules within available resources, and amending the title accordingly.
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.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,
____________________________ COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair |
____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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