Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 860 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that health aides shall be provided for all public schools, including all new century charter schools and new century conversion charter schools.

Testimony in favor of the measure was submitted by the Department of Education, Charter School Administrative Office, and Hawaii Academy of Arts and Science Public Charter School. The Department of Health submitted comments.

Your Committees find that there are over five thousand five hundred students attending new century charter schools. It is only appropriate for all public school students, in charter schools and regular schools, to receive the same services and level of support. This measure clarifies the State's duty to provide charter school students the same access to health aides as the regular public school students.

Although Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, included assurances that issues such as these would be provided for, your Committees have amended this measure to change its effective date to July 1, 2020. It is the intent of your Committees to ensure that health care services are provided to charter schools.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 860, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 860, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.