THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair
Senator Kaiali'i Kahele, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2017

DATE:

Monday, February 13, 2017

TIME:

2:45 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB1188
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.
Establishes a STEM educator scholarship program to be administered by DOE to address the shortage of STEM teachers in secondary schools in Hawaii.  Appropriates funds for the program for 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 fiscal years.

EDU, WAM

SB1101
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF.
Allows, in cases where the Department of Education directly expends its own funds for disaster relief to be directly credited with any federal disaster relief reimbursement.  Clarifies that the Department of Education may carry over funds received as disaster relief appropriation or reimbursement.

EDU, WAM

SB1100
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO RECORDS MANAGEMENT.
Requires the department of education to set a standard for retention of student records of not less than one hundred years.  Allows the department of education to partner with the Hawaii correctional industries program to establish a three-year student records modernization pilot project.

EDU, WAM/JDL

SB1287
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ETHICS.
Exempts extracurricular service of employees from the state ethics code if certain conditions are met.  Defines detached remuneration and extracurricular service.

EDU, JDL

SB1305
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.
Establishes the vocational education out-of-school program.  Establishes the vocational education program special fund.  Makes an appropriation.

EDU, WAM

SB423
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO STUDENT MEALS.
Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first:  (1) 30 days of the first semester of a school year while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week that the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative.  Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt rules or policies on the collection of funds for negative student meal balances.

EDU, WAM

SB224
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGY.
Establishes licensure and registration requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the board of psychology.  Amends the composition of the board to include two school psychologists.

EDU, CPH

SB618
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Requires the board of education to establish a process whereby the public may petition the board to add items to the agenda of the next meeting.

EDU

SB688
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.
Prohibits persons from interfering with or disrupting the orderly operation, safety, or peaceful conduct of a school or school-related activity.

EDU, JDL

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-7100.