STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2154

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2433

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2433 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILDREN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prioritize other options apart from formal court proceedings to address student truancy.

     Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that instances of student truancy are frequently resolved through court proceedings when non-judicial alternatives are available.  Non-judicial alternatives are generally less costly, more flexible, and less disruptive to a student and student's family than court proceedings.  This measure prioritizes those non-judicial alternatives in situations in which such alternatives are applicable.

     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. 2433 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair