STAND. COM. REP. NO. 698

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 240

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 240, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the training requirements and opportunities for school health aides.

     More specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Requires that school health aides be trained and provided clinical direction by the Department of Health, in consultation with the University of Hawaii School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene; and

(2)  Repeals section 302A-708, Hawaii Revised Statutes, eliminating the requirement for the Department of Education to provide career pathways development and training opportunities to school health aides in the Department of Education's school health services field.

     Your Committee finds that this measure provides a reasonable and cost-effective method of training school health aides.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Adding the word "training" to the title of the section 302A-854, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to more accurately reflect the amended language of the section; and

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 240, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 240, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair