Bill Text: HI HB2079 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-26 - Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 7 [HB2079 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2079-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to clarify budgetary funding, including weighted student formula funding, for special education services, personnel, and other costs for public schools.
SECTION 2. Section 302A-1301, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Not less than seventy per cent of
appropriations for the total budget of the department, excluding debt service
and capital improvement programs and appropriations for agencies
administratively attached to the department, shall be [expended by principals.]
distributed through the weighted student formula pursuant to section
302A-1303.6; provided that not less than twenty per cent of appropriations for
the total budget of the department shall be expended for special education
services and personnel."
SECTION 3. Section 302D-28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Beginning with fiscal year 2012-2013, and
each fiscal year thereafter, the non-facility general fund
per-pupil funding request for charter school students shall be the same as the general
fund per-pupil amount to the department in the most recently
approved executive budget recommendation for the department and shall be based
upon reasonable projected enrollment figures for all charter schools. The general fund
per-pupil request for each regular education and special education student
shall:
(1) Include all
general fund regular and special education cost categories, including
comprehensive school support services, but excluding [special education
services,] adult education[,] and the after-school plus program;
provided that these services are provided and funded by the department; and provided
further that the per pupil request for special education shall not be less than
twenty per cent of the total general fund per pupil request; and
(2) Exclude fringe
benefit costs and debt service."
SECTION 4. Section 302D-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§302D-30 Responsibilities of
the department; special education services.
(a)
The department shall collaborate with each authorizer to develop a
system of technical assistance related to compliance with federal and state
laws and access to federal and state funds.
The department shall collaborate with each authorizer to develop a list
of central services that the department may offer for purchase by a charter
school at an annual cost to be negotiated between an individual charter school
and the department. The department shall
enter into a contract with a charter school to provide these services, which
shall be renegotiated on an annual basis.
(b) The department shall be responsible for the
provision of a free appropriate public education. Any charter school that enrolls special
education students or identifies one of its students as eligible for special
education shall be responsible for providing the educational and related
services required by a student's individualized education program. The programs and services for the student
shall be determined collaboratively by the student's individualized education
program team, which includes the student's parents or legal guardians.
If
the charter school is unable to provide all of the required services, then the
department shall provide the student with services as determined by the
student's individualized educational program team. The department shall collaborate with the
commission to develop guidelines related to the provision of special education
services and resources to each charter school.
The department shall review all of the current individualized education
programs of special education students enrolled in a charter school and may
offer staff, funding, or both, to the charter school based upon a per-pupil
weighted formula implemented by the department and used to allocate resources
for special education students in the department schools.
(c) All per pupil special education funds appropriated by the legislature for charter schools shall be expended for special education services and personnel by charter school principals or directors."
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Public Schools; Special Education; Funding
Description:
Clarifies budgetary funding, including weighted student formula funding, for public school special education services, personnel, and other costs.
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