Bill Text: HI HB2486 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Education; Student Instructional Hours
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-06-15 - (S) Act 167, 6/15/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 626). [HB2486 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2486-Amended.html
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 147-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 2486
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir and Madam:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 2486, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that students have a sufficient amount of classroom time by requiring all public schools, including charter schools, to implement a minimum of 200 days of classroom instruction, or an equivalent number of instructional hours, per school year, beginning with the 2011-2012 school year.
Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting the provisions that require the implementation of a minimum of 200 days of classroom instruction, or an equivalent number of instructional hours, per school year, beginning with the 2011-2012 school year;
(2) Requiring the Department of Education (DOE) to maximize the amount of student instructional hours provided to students under relevant collective bargaining agreements in effect during the 2010-2011 school year;
(3) Requiring the establishment of a certain number of student instructional hours per school year for elementary and secondary school grades, for the 2011-2013 school years, and for the 2013-2015 school years;
(4) Requiring DOE, with the Board of Education and Office of the Governor, and in consultation with the representatives of the affected collective bargaining units, to submit to the Legislature, prior to the Regular Session of 2012, a plan to provide students with a higher number of student instructional hours per school year for elementary and secondary school grades, for future school years;
(5) Excluding charter schools from the provisions of the bill;
(6) Requiring DOE to consider pick-up and drop-off times that optimize its transportation services while minimizing costs to the State, if implementation of the student instructional hours results in varying schedules for the transportation of students;
(7) Changing the effective date to upon its approval; and
(8) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style, including changing the purpose language to reflect the amendments made to the bill.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2486, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2486, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
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____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair |
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____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ SHAN S. TSUTSUI, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Co-Chair |
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