THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, February 8, 2019

TIME:

2:55pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 583

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Beginning with the 2019-2021 fiscal year, reduces the percentage from 6.5 per cent to 5.0 per cent of the total department of education's operating budget that can be expended for the department's administrative expenditures.  Increases the per cent of appropriations for the total budget of the department that principals can expend from seventy per cent to seventy-five per cent.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 584

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FUNDING FOR SCHOOL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.

Requires the Department of Education to include source of project funding and amount of legislative appropriations used for some other purpose and the justification for such use in the information posted on the Department's website relating to school repair and maintenance projects.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 585

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE SCHOOL-LEVEL MINOR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL FUND.

Clarifies that the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund shall be used only to fund minor repairs and maintenance.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 588

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the department of education to report the creation of any temporary positions to the legislature at least twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 589

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Removes operating and maintaining capital improvement and repair and maintenance programs for department and school facilities from the express responsibilities of the department of education.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 594

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes and appropriates funds for a state school meal subsidy program within the department of education to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for the free and reduced price lunch program.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 593

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.

Allows home schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school they would otherwise be required to attend.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 591

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Increases the amount of damages allowed for public school restitution agreements from $3,500 to $10,000.

 

EDU, JDC/WAM

SB 1071

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO IMPROVEMENTS TO STATE FACILITIES ON STATE LAND AT KA‘OHAO PUBLIC CONVERSION CHARTER SCHOOL.

Appropriates funds for a capital improvement project to state facilities on state land at Ka‘ohao public conversion charter school.

 

EDU, WAM

 

 

 

 

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