THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
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Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair |
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Senator Breene Harimoto, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Monday, February 1, 2016 |
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TIME: |
1:15 PM |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN'S SALARY. Increases the salary cap on the State Librarian position.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Appropriates $200,000 for start-up grants for newly approved pre-opening public charter schools, and requires the state public charter school commission to establish guidelines and criteria for the grants.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Authorizes the charter school commission to adopt interim rules. Establishes requirements for meeting minutes. Authorizes charter schools to assess fees and charges for co-curricular activities.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO STUDENT MEALS. Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first: (1) thirty days of a semester while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative. Authorizes DOE to adopt rules or policies on the collection of funds for negative student meal balances.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS. Defines curricular materials to include both printed and digital material. Requires textbook manufacturers to make a digital format of the textbook available for use in public schools. Clarifies that moneys for curricular materials can be used for digital formats. Appropriates funds.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO STUDENT INFORMED CONSENT. Allows public school students in grades K through 12 to decline participation in dissection, vivisection and other procedures harmful to animals. Prompts schools to make alternative educational projects available, and the board of education to develop rules and give notice to all schools.
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EDU, JDL |
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Michelle N. Kidani Chair |
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