STAND. COM. REP. NO. 871-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 811

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 811, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL SPORTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow each home-schooled, high school-age student to participate as an unattached competitor in any individual sport at sanctioned athletic events and available to the public school that the student would otherwise be required to attend.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from nine individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Stonewall Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 811, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair