Bill Text: HI SB329 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Tort Actions; Exemption from Civil Liability; Providing Shelter and Food to Animals in Need

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-18 - The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB329 Detail]

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 199

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 239

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 239 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to, among other things:

 

     (1)  Move the framework for establishing an annual conference of secondary school students from chapter 317, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

    

     (2)  Remove the Governor's authority to appoint members of the Student Conference Committee.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Student Council, and seven individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Student Conference Committee provides secondary students with the opportunity to learn valuable skills and connect with and learn from other secondary school students.  In addition, it provides a forum for secondary students to share their thoughts and concerns on issues that impact their schools and communities.

 

     Your Committee further finds that this measure reflects an improved framework for the Student Conference Committee and the role of the Student Conference Advisory Committee.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding language to specify that the public school members of the Student Conference Committee shall be selected by the Superintendent or the Superintendent's designee;

 

     (2)  Adding language to specify that members of the Student Conference Committee from schools represented by the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools shall be selected by a representative of the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools; and

 

     (3)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 239, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 239, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair