Bill Text: HI SB1189 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Preschool Open Doors Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-24 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Aquino, DeCoite, Har, Ichiyama, C. Lee, Thielen excused (6). [SB1189 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SB1189-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE PRESCHOOL OPEN DOORS PROGRAM.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-181, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Subject to the availability of
funds, the program shall serve four-year-old children, with priority extended
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(1) Children who are not eligible to attend
public school kindergarten in the calendar year in which they turn five years
of age because their birth date occurs after the kindergarten eligibility date
pursuant to section 302A-411; and
(2) Underserved] underserved or
at-risk children[.], as defined in section 302L-1."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Preschool Open Doors Program; At-risk Children; Underserved Children
Description:
Repeals the priority given by the preschool open doors program to children who are not eligible to attend public school kindergarten in the calendar year in which they turn five years of age because their birth date occurs after the kindergarten eligibility date.
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