STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1455-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2368

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2368, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Education to establish a Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Program (Program) to be implemented beginning with the 2019-2020 School Year to educate public school students on sexual abuse prevention, provide relevant training to school teachers and staff, and inform parents and guardians about important child sexual abuse topics; and

(2) Appropriate funds for implementation of the Program.

The Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women; Hawaii State Teachers Association; Hawai‘i State Democratic Women's Caucus; Hawaii Youth Services Network; YWCA Hawai‘i Island; YWCA O‘ahu; Family Programs Hawaii; Parents And Children Together; American Association of University Women in Hawai‘i; The Sex Abuse Treatment Center of Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children; Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii; Safe Keiki Project; Domestic Violence Action Center; Save Medicaid Hawaii; IMUAlliance; Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai‘i; Hawaii Children's Action Network; Hawaii Women's Coalition; Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i; and several individuals supported this measure. The Department of Education provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the requirement that implementation of the Program include age-appropriate curriculum that involves students as active learning participants, through such methods as discussion, modeling, and role playing; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2368, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2368, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair