STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2038-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.C.R. No. 69

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.C.R. No. 69 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND STUDENTS TO BE EDUCATED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF HEAVY BACKPACKS AND TO TAKE PROACTIVE MEASURES TO AVOID INJURY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge:

(1) School administrators, teachers, parents, and students to be educated about the potential health effects of heavy backpacks and to take proactive measures to avoid injury;

(2) Schools to work with their parent-teacher associations to assess the extent to which students use overweight backpacks and to promote strategies that lessen the weight of student backpacks; and

(3) The Board of Education to develop policies and procedures to allow licensed chiropractors to conduct interval scoliosis examinations on children in schools.

The Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i supported this measure. The Department of Education provided comments on this measure.

Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the provision that urges the Board of Education to develop policies and procedures to allow licensed chiropractors to conduct interval scoliosis examinations on children in schools.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 69, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 69, H.D. 1.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair