Bill Text: HI SB360 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Home Schooling; Extracurricular Activities

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB360 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB360-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1191

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 360

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 360, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow home schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school they would otherwise be required to attend.

 

     The Department of Education, an individual member of the Board of Education, and many concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Athletic Directors and Coaches Association of Hawaii, Big Island Interscholastic Federation of Athletic Directors and Coaches, and several concerned individuals opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the definition of "extracurricular activity" by removing the references to music and band, which are co-curricular activities;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to upon approval; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 360, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 360, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair